Simondes, a Greek lyric poet, born at Iulis, in the island of Ceos, about 556 B. C, died in Syracuse about 467. His family is said to have held some hereditary office in connection with the worship of Bacchus. After reaching manhood he was invited by Hipparchus to Athens, where, with an interval of a few years, he lived until his 80th year, when he was crowned for his victory in the dithyrambic chorus. His elegies on those who fell at Marathon and Plataea, his epigram on the tombs of the Spartans slain at Thermopylae, and his odes on the sea fights at Artemisium and Salamis, were celebrated. His latter years were passed in Sicily, at the court of Hiero of Syracuse. He is reproached by Pindar with avarice, having been the first poet on record who wrote for money. He was the most prolific and probably the most popular lyric poet that Greece ever produced. A few fragments are all that remain of his writings, the " Lament of Danae " being the most celebrated. The best edition is that of Schneidewin, Simonidis Cei Car-minum Reliquioe (8vo, Brunswick, 1835). - A writer considered by some his grandson, and known, as Simonides the Younger, was the author of a genealogical work in three books, and of a treatise " On Inventions." - A few fragments remain, including a satire on women, of Simonides the Elder, of Amorgos, who flourished about 650 B. C.