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- Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0004.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:2.13.122-2.13.124
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-09-24
Simon the leather-cutter is introduced along with the titles of his dialogues compiled from Socrates' shop visits, his refusal of Pericles' patronage, and other homonymous figures.
Σίμων Ἀθηναῖος, σκυτοτόμος. οὗτος ἐρχομένου Σωκράτους ἐπὶ τὸ ἐργαστήριον καὶ διαλεγομένου τινά, ὧν ἐμνημόνευεν1 ὑποσημειώσεις ἐποιεῖτο· ὅθεν σκυτικοὺς αὐτοῦ τοὺς διαλόγους καλοῦσιν. εἰσὶ δὲ τρεῖς καὶ τριάκοντα ἐν ἑνὶ φερόμενοι βιβλίῳ· Περὶ θεῶν. Περὶ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ. Περὶ τοῦ καλοῦ. Τί τὸ καλόν. Περὶ δικαίου πρῶτον, δεύτερον. Περὶ ἀρετῆς ὅτι οὐ διδακτόν. Περὶ ἀνδρείας πρῶτον, δεύτερον, τρίτον. Περὶ νόμου. Περὶ δημαγωγίας. Περὶ τιμῆς. Περὶ ποιήσεως. Περὶ εὐπαθείας. Περὶ ἔρωτος. Περὶ φιλοσοφίας Περὶ ἐπιστήμης. Περὶ μουσικῆς. Περὶ ποιήσεως.
Simon of Athens, a leather-cutter. Whenever Socrates came to his workshop and conversed on various topics, he would make notes of the things he remembered; hence they call his dialogues "leathern." They are thirty-three in number, preserved in a single volume: *On the Gods* *On the Good* *On the Beautiful* *What is the Beautiful* *On Justice, First and Second* *On Virtue, that it cannot be taught* *On Courage, First, Second, and Third* *On Law* *On Popular Leadership* *On Honor* *On Poetry* *On Well-being* *On Love* *On Philosophy* *On Knowledge* *On Music* *On Poetry*
Τί τὸ καλόν. Περὶ διδασκαλίας. Περὶ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι. Περὶ κρίσεως. Περὶ τοῦ ὄντος. Περὶ ἀριθμοῦ. Περὶ ἐπιμελείας. Περὶ τοῦ ἐργάζεσθαι. Περὶ φιλοκερδοῦς. Περὶ ἀλαζονείας. Περὶ τοῦ καλοῦ. οἱ δέ, Περὶ τοῦ βουλεύεσθαι. Περὶ λόγου ἢ περὶ ἐπιτηδειότητος. Περὶ κακουργίας. Οὗτος, φασί, πρῶτος διελέχθη τοὺς λόγους τοὺς Σωκρατικούς. ἐπαγγειλαμένου δὲ Περικλέους θρέψειν αὐτὸν καὶ κελεύοντος ἀπιέναι πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐκ ἂν ἔφη τὴν παρρησίαν ἀποδόσθαι2.
*What is the Beautiful* *On Teaching* *On Conversing* *On Judgment* *On Being* *On Number* *On Diligence* *On Working* *On Greed* *On Boastfulness* *On the Beautiful* And according to others: *On Deliberation* *On Discourse, or On Fitness* *On Wrongdoing* He was the first, they say, who held Socratic conversations. And when Pericles promised to support him and urged him to come to his house, he said that he would not sell his freedom of speech.
Γέγονε δὲ καὶ ἄλλος Σίμων ῥητορικὰς τέχνας γεγραφώς· καὶ ἕτερος ἰατρὸς κατὰ Σέλευκον τὸν Νικάνορα· καί τις ἀνδριαντοποιός.
There was also another Simon who wrote treatises on rhetoric; and another, a physician in the time of Seleucus Nicanor; and a certain sculptor of statues.
- 2.13.122ὧν ἐμνημόνευεν
The antecedent τούτων is omitted, and the relative pronoun ὧν is either a genitive governed by the verb ἐμνημόνευεν (which takes the genitive of the thing remembered) or attracted into the genitive case of the implied antecedent.
- 2.13.123οὐκ ἂν ἔφη τὴν παρρησίαν ἀποδόσθαι
Construction of ἄν with the aorist infinitive (ἀποδόσθαι) in indirect discourse, representing a potential optative in direct speech (οὐκ ἂν ἀποδοίμην, 'I would not sell'). The particle ἄν is placed early in the clause adjacent to the negative οὐκ.