Σιμμία (Simmia)

Σιμμία is an Ancient Greek form of Σιμμίας, meaning “Simmias — of Samos, or, as he is more usually designated, of Amorgos, was the second, both in time and in… (and others of the name)”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun or adjective or dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Genio Socratis 7: … γὰρ οὖν εἶπεν ὁ Φειδόλαος· ἀλλὰ τοῦτον μέν, ὅταν ἥκῃ πρὸς ἡμᾶς, δεξόμεθα· νυνὶ δʼ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀρτίως ἠποροῦμεν, ὦ Σιμμία, γραμμάτων, εἴ τι γιγνώσκεις πλεῖον ἐξάγγειλον ἡμῖν· λέγονται γὰρ οἱ κατʼ Αἴγυπτον ἱερεῖς τὰ γράμματα συμβαλε …

Plato, Phaedo 102: … τα οὕτως λέγεις, ἆρ’ οὐχ, ὅταν Σιμμίαν Σωκράτους φῇς μείζω εἶναι, Φαίδωνος δὲ ἐλάττω, λέγεις τότ’ εἶναι ἐν τῷ Σιμμίᾳ ἀμφότερα, καὶ μέγεθος καὶ σμικρότητα; ἔγωγε. ἀλλὰ γάρ, ἦ δ’ ὅς, ὁμολογεῖς τὸ τὸν Σιμμίαν ὑπερέχειν Σωκράτους …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.