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Samaritans.” It was reprinted in 1681, with a supplement, 
containing “ A Comparison between the Ceremonies of the 
Jews and Discipline of the Church.” In 1678 he published 
“ A Critical History of the Old Testament,” which, by the 
boldness of some of its opinions, gave a considerable degree 
of offence. 
He published a number of works, and in addition to those 
already noticed, we may mention, “ Histoire critique du 
Texte du Nouveau Testament;” “ Histoire critique des Ver¬ 
sions du Nouveau Testament;” “ Histoire critique des prin- 
cipaux Commentateurs du Noveau Testament“ Nouvelles 
Observations sur le Texte et les Versions du Nouveau Tes¬ 
tament “ Une Traduction Frangoise du Nouveau Testa¬ 
ment avec Remarques Literales et Critiques,” 2 vols. 8vo. 
This was condemned in the pastoral letters of Noailles, arch¬ 
bishop of Paris, and Bossuet, bishop of Meaux. “ Biblio- 
theque Critique,” 4 vols. published under the name of 
Soinjore, a work suppressed by order of council. “ Nou- 
velle Bibliotheque Choisie,” being a sequel to the former. 
“ Lettres Critiques,” 4 vols. “ Critique de la Biblio¬ 
theque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques de M. Dupin, et des 
Prolegomenes sur la Bible du meme,” 4 vols. 8vo. “ His¬ 
toire Critique de la Croyance et des Coutumes des Nations 
du Levant.” M. Simon left his MSS. and a number of 
printed books, with marginal notes written with his own 
hand, to the cathedral library of Rouen. 
There was another Simon of some celebrity, a doctor of 
laws, the author of “ A Dictionary of the Bible,” explain¬ 
ing the geography of the Old and New Testament, and the 
ceremonies of the Jews, first printed at Lyons in 1693, and 
again in 1703, with considerable additions, forming two 
vols. folio. 
SIMON, a great musician among the ancients, who, re¬ 
jecting former rules of his art, invented a new mode, which 
was called “ Simodia,” from his name, in the same manner 
as the genus invented by Lyses, was called Lysodia. 
SIMON, a small island in the gulf of California, near the 
coast. 
SIMON, a river of Quito, in the province of Moxos 
which runs into the Itenes. 
SIMON, St., a town of the north-east of France, in the 
department of the Aisne, on the Somme ; 7 miles south-south¬ 
west of St. Quentin. 
SIMON, St., the name of various settlements in different 
parts of South America, all inconsiderable, consisting chiefly 
of a few Indian families. 
SIMON’S, St., the easternmost of the three large islands 
situated at the mouth of the Alatamaha river, in Georgia, 
having on the north-north-east Little St. Simon’s island; and 
between these is the eastern mouth of the river. The south¬ 
ern end of the island is near the north mouth of the 
Alatamaha. It formerly had a strong battery erected here, 
for the defence of Jekyl sound, in which 10 or 12 forty-gun 
ships may ride in safety. This island is about 45 miles in 
length, and from two to four in breadth, has a rich and 
fruitful soil, full of oak and hickory trees, intermixed with 
meadows and old Indian fields. In the middle of the island 
is the town of Frederica. The bar or entrance of St. Simon’s 
is south-by-west, 19 leagues from Tybee inlet. 
SIMON’S BAY, a bay of Southern Africa, in the territory 
of the Cape of Good Hope, forming the head of False 
bay, and bounding on the east the Cape peninsula. Lat. 34. 
12. S. 
SIMONBURN, a township of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 9 miles north-west of Hexham. Population 498. 
S1MONDLEY, a village of England, in the High Peake 
of Derbyshire; 10 miles north-by-west of Chapel-in-le- 
Frith 
SIMONETTA, a castle of Austrian Italy, about 4 miles 
from Milan, with a remarkable echo, which at first repeats 
the three last syllables of a word pronounced, and afterwards 
the last alone. 
SIMONETTA (Giovanni), an historian, was a native of 
Cassaro, in Sicily. In 1414 he entered into the service of 
Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, of whom his brother 
Cicco was the confidential minister. After the death of 
Francesco, he attached himself to his son Galeazzo Maria, 
to whom he, with his brother, continued so faithful, that 
when Ludovico Sforza usurped the dukedom, they were 
arrested and sent prisoners to Pavia. Cicco, in the following 
year was beheaded, and Giovanni was banished to Vercelli, 
He, however, returned to Milan, where he was buried about 
the year 1491. Simonetta composed in Latin “A History of 
the actions of Francesco Sforza from 1423 to 1466,” which 
is accounted one of the best works of that time. It was se¬ 
veral times printed. It is also found in Muratori’s collection 
of Italian historians. 
SIMONIA'CAL, adj. Guilty of buying or selling eccle¬ 
siastical preferment. 
SIMO'NIAC, s. [simoniaque, Fr.; simoniacus, Lat.] 
One who buys or sells preferment in the church. 
SIMONFACALLY, adv. With the guilt of simony. 
SIMONIANS, or Simonites, a sect of ancient heretics, 
the first that ever disturbed Christianity; if they might be 
said to do so, who were little more than mere philosophers, 
and chiefly made profession of magic. 
Simon Magus, so often mentioned in the Acts, was their 
leader, and died under the emperor Nero; St. Peter still 
surviving; so that Clemens Alexandrinus is mistaken, when 
he makes Simon posterior to Marcion. 
- SIMONIDES, a celebrated Grecian poet, born in the 
isle of Chios, was the son of Leoprepes, and flourished in 
the fifth century before the Christian era. He excelled in 
various kinds of poetry, but especially in the elegiac, for 
which, as we learn from Horace and Quintilian, he was 
almost proverbially famous in antiquity. One of his most 
famous compositions was entitled “ The Lamentations,” of 
which a small fragment is all that remains. 
Simonides was endowed with a most extraordinary 
memory, and some have attributed to him the invention 
of the art of mnemonics. The introduction of some of the 
compound letters of the Greek alphabet is also ascribed to 
him. He lived to an advanced age, and at the age of 
eighty gained a prize for poetry. According to Pliny, 
Simonides added the eighth string to the lyre. In his old 
age, he became somewhat mercenary and avaricious. He 
was frequently employed by the victors at the games to write 
panegyrics and odes in their praise, before his pupil Pindar 
had exercised his talents in their behalf; but Simonides 
would never gratify their vanity in this particular, till he 
had first tied them down to a stipulated sum for his trouble; 
and, upon being upbraided for his meanness, he said, that 
he had two coffers, in one of which he had, for many years, 
put his pecuniary rewards; the other was for honours, 
verbal thanks, and promises; that the first was pretty well 
filled, but the last remained always empty. And he made 
no scruple to confess, in his old age, that of all the enjoy¬ 
ments of life, the love of money was the only one of which 
time had not deprived him. It is mentioned as a subject 
of dispraise, that Simonides was one of the first who wrote 
verses for money, and that he travelled through the cities of 
Asia, selling eulogies on the victors in the public games. 
He paid a visit, in advanced life, to Hiero, king of Syracuse, 
to whom he gave the celebrated answer respecting the nature 
of God that has been handed down from generation to 
generation to the present time in the writings of Cicero. Hiero 
having asked his opinion on the subject, he requested a day 
to consider of it; when this was expired, he doubled the 
time, and thus he did repeatedly, till the monarch desired 
to know his reason for this proceeding: “ It is,” said he, 
“ because the longer I reflect on the question, the more 
difficult it appears to be.” Undergoing shipwreck on a 
voyage, while the other passengers encumbered themselves 
with their most valuable effects, he left his behind him, 
saying, “ I carry with me all that is mine;” and when he 
arrived safe at Clazomene, his fellow sufferers being either 
drowned or pillaged, he met with a citizen acquainted with 
his poetry, who liberally supplied all his wants. It was^a 
witty 
