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This is the ancient testimony about Simonides the Younger, a writer of the fifth century BC known chiefly from a notice in the Byzantine lexicon called the Suda. According to the Suda he was, in some accounts, the grandson of the lyric poet Simonides of Ceos through his daughter, lived before the Peloponnesian War, and wrote a Genealogy and a work on Inventions, each in three books.
This brief entry is the main evidence for a separate writer behind the genealogical fragments cited under the name Simonides. It shows how later scholars distinguished between writers of the same name and preserves the titles of two otherwise lost prose works.
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