Silanio ̄n of Athens (360 – 320 BCE)
Wrote on symmetry (P 34.51; V 7.pr.14). He sculpted portraits in bronze,
including a Iokaste ̄ (P, Table Talk 5.1 [674A]), whose deathly facial pallor was
achieved by “mixing silver into the bronze”: perhaps a silvered surface. Pliny remarks that
Silanio ̄n was a severely self-critical perfectionist who earned the nick-name “madman”
(insanum) for breaking his statues to pieces after completion. His Plato (D L
3.25), known only from Roman copies, provided the paradigm for the seated,
plainly dressed, contemplative philosopher.
A.F. Stewart, Greek Sculpture (1990) 179–180; NP 11.545, R. Neudecker; OCD3 1406, A.F. Stewart; Idem
(1998) 278–280.
GLIM
S ⇒ I S
Sile ̄nos (ca 400 – ca 30 BCE)
Listed as the first after A who wrote on Doric proportions (V 7.pr.12),
so perhaps not long after 400.
RE 3A.1 (1927) 56 (#3), M. Fluß.
GLIM
Silimachus
C A ( probably mostly from S), in Chron. 1.57 (CML 6.1.1, p. 462),
cites SILIMACHVS, a follower of H, who recorded that incubus carried off
many people at Rome, infected by contagion. The name is unattested and Kind emends to
LVSI- (i.e., L K); cf. S.
RE 3A.1 (1929) 61, F.E. Kind.
PTK
Silo (ca 120 BCE – 40 CE)
A, in G CMGen 6.4 (13.928 K.), records Silo’s diaphore ̄tike ̄; he also
records, CMLoc 9.4 (13.285 K.), an analgesic intestinal remedy, containing white pepper,
“white” henbane, opium, mandrake, etc., from ΣΙΓΩΝ, sc. ΣΙΛΩΝ, used by Valens, pre-
sumably T V. The use of white pepper, an Indian import, suggests a ter-
minus of ca 120 BCE. The name is rare but widespread (LGPN); Pape-Benseler derive from
the Latin Silo (as at Catullus 103.1).
RE 2A.2 (1923) 2455, F.E. Kind; 3A.1 (1927) 103, anon.
PTK
Simmias the Stoic (125 – 145 CE)
Among Q’ students, and wrote an exegesis of the senses followed by A
(G, In Hipp. Off. 18B.654 K.). Kühn read Simiou tou Sto ̄ikou, for differing MS readings
(Paris. Gr. 1849: se ̄mainomenou sto ̄ikou; Marc. Gr. 279: se ̄meiou; see DK 88B39). Distinct from
S M.
Ihm (2002) #231.
GLIM
SIMMIAS THE STOIC