f the Ramsays.--Sir W.
Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.).

=Simon= (_Martin_), proprietor of the village Bout du Monde, and miller
of Grenoble. He is called "The king of Pelvoux," and in reality is the
Baron de Peyras, who has given up all his estates to his nephew, the
young chevalier, Marcellin de Peyras, and retired to Grenoble, where he
lived as a villager. Martin Simon is in secret possession of a
gold-mine, left him by his father, with the stipulation that he should
place it beyond the reach of any private man, on the day it becomes a
"source of woe and crime." Rabisson, a travelling tinker, the only
person who knows about it, being murdered, Simon is suspected; but
Eusebe Noel confesses the crime. Simon then makes the mine over to the
king of France, as it had proved the source both "of woe and crime."--E.
Stirling, _The Gold Mine_, or _Miller of Grenoble_ (1854).

=Simonides=, benevolent Jew, father of Esther, and friend of Ben Hur.--Lew
Wallace, _Ben Hur: a Tale of the Christ_ (1880).

=Simon Pure=, a young quaker from Pennsylvania, on a visit to Obadiah Prim
(a Bristol Quaker, and one of the guardians of Anne Lovely, the
heiress). Colonel Feignwell personated Simon Pure, and obtained
Obadiah's consent to marry his ward. When the real Simon Pure presented
himself, the colonel denounced him as an impostor; but after he had
obtained the guardian's signature, he confessed the trick, and showed
how he had obtained the consent of the other three guardians.--Mrs.
Centlivre, _A Bold Stroke for a Wife_ (1717).

[Asterism] This name has become a household word for "the real man," the
_ipsissimus ego_.

=Si'monie= or SI'MONY, the friar, in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_
(1498). So called from Simon Magus (_Acts._ viii. 9-24.)

=Simony= (_Dr._), in Foote's farce, called _The Cozeners_, was meant for
Dr. Dodd.

=Sim'org=, a bird "which hath seen the world thrice destroyed." It is
found in K[^a]f, but as Hafiz says, "searching for the simorg is like
searching for the philosopher's stone." This does not agree with
Beckford's account. (See SIMURGH.)

In K[^a]f the simorg hath its dwelling-place,
The all-knowing bird of ages, who hath seen
The world with all its children thrice destroyed.

Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, viii. 19 (1797).

=Simpcox= (_Saunder_), a lame man, who asserted he was born blind, and to
whom St. Alban said, "Come, offer at my shrine, and I wil