We know nothing of his opinions except that he held the soul to be a _harmony_ of the body; a doctrine which had been already discussed by Plato in the Phaedo, and combated by Aristotle.

He was a great musician, and the chief portions of his works which have come down to us are fragments of some musical treatises .-- Smith's Dict.

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and Rom.

Biog.; to which source I must acknowledge my obligation for nearly the whole of these biographical notes.
[13] The Simonides here meant is the celebrated poet of Ceos, the perfecter of elegiac poetry among the Greeks.

He flourished about the time of the Persian war.