Simon: Socrates

¹ Simon was an Athenian, a leather-cutter.

He, whenever Socrates came into his workshop and conversed, used to make memorandums of all his sayings that he recollected.

² From this circumstance, people have called his dialogues leathern ones.

But he has written 33 which are all combined in 1 volume:

On the Gods
on the Good
on the Honourable
what the Honourable is
the first and 2nd Dialogue on Justice
on Virtue, showing that it is not to be taught
the first Dialogue on Courage; the second; the third; on Laws; on the Art of Guiding the People; on Honour; on Poetry; on Good Health
on Love
on Philosophy
on Knowledge
on Music
on Poetry
on what the Honourable is
on Teaching
on Conversation
on Judgment
on the Existent
on Number
on Diligence
on Activity
on Covetousness
on Insolence
on the Honourable

Some also add to these dialogues; on taking Counsel; on Reason or Suitableness; on doing Harm.

³ He is, as some people say, the first writer who reduced the conversations of Socrates into the form of dialogues.

When Pericles offered to provide for him, and invited him to come to him, he said that he would not sell his freedom of speech.

⁴ There was also another Simon, who wrote a treatise on Oratorical Art. And another, who was a physician in the time of Seleucus Nicanor.

And another, who was a statuary.