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Simus the Philosopher Testimonies in Greek

The philosophical work Testimonies is attributed to Simus the Philosopher. It is documented only as a collection consisting of three brief passages, unattested in major scholarly references and digital repositories of classical texts. No description of the work’s specific philosophical content or the nature of its testimonies survives in established academic sources. The transmission history is entirely undocumented, with the provenance and medium of the three cited passages remaining unspecified. Due to the absence of corroborating evidence from authoritative sources, the work and its author remain unverifiable and cannot be placed within any known philosophical tradition or historical context.

1 IAMBL. V. P. 267 p. 191, 8 N. Ποσειδωνιᾶται Ἀθάμας, Σῖμος.
2 PORPHYR. V. P. 3 τοῦτο δ’ ἀνελόντα[?] Σῖμον τὸν ἁρμονικὸν καὶ τὸν κανόνα σφετερισάμενον ἐξενεγκεῖν ὡς ἴδιον· εἶναι μὲν οὖν ἑπτὰ τὰς ἀναγεγραμμένας σοφίας, διὰ δὲ τὴν μίαν, ἢν Σῖμος ὑφείλετο, συναφανισθῆναι καὶ τὰς ἄλλας τὰς ἐν τῶι ἀναθήματι γεγραμμένας.
3 IAMBL. in Nic. p. 116, 1 Pistelli εἴρηται καὶ περὶ τῶν ἑξῆς ταῖς πρώταις τριῶν μεσοτήτων, αἷς καὶ αἱ ἀπὸ Πλάτωνος μέχρις Ἐρατοσθένους ἐχρήσαντο, ἄρξαντος ὡς ἔφαμεν τῆς εὑρέσεως αὐτῶν Ἀρχύτα [47 B 2] καὶ Ἱππάσου [c. 18, 15] τῶν μαθηματικῶν. τὰς δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα νεωτέρων περί τε Μυωνίδην καὶ Εὐφράνορα τοὺς Πυθαγορικοὺς προφιλοτεχνηθείσας τέσσαρας οὔτε παραλείπειν ἄξιον κτλ.