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Show M-IOMDLS, Tlie larned tirerk Corcerof Man-usrlrts, Man-usrlrts, c.oue. LONDON, Oct. 13. A man whose name was In everyone's mouth a few years ago has just died In a HtUo town In Albania. This Is Sl-monides, Sl-monides, the notorious forger of Greek manuscripts. Tills man had a remarkable history as a forger or Egyptian and Syrian antiquities, lie never attempted to cheat ignorant ignor-ant people, but also went with his frauds to the most celebrated scholars schol-ars and authorities. Among Si-mondi's Si-mondi's ex Ioits was his presentation presenta-tion to a committee ot a dozen scholars at Athens or the manuscript manu-script or Homer's works, wrlteu ou lotus leaves, which he asicrtod belonged be-longed to a peritsl considerably anterior an-terior to the Chri-tian era. Eleven or the twelve members or the committee com-mittee were convinced ot the authenticity au-thenticity or the document. The twelfth, however, made the discovery dis-covery that it was a faithful copy of the text of Homer, as published by the German critic WollI, and that the manuscript reproduced all the errors that the prluter and proor-reader proor-reader had left. t!ini"nldex succeeded In swindling Ismail Pasha out of a large sum of money for a furgeil manuscript of Aristotle's works. He also sold to the British Museum a forged mem-orandum mem-orandum of an address by IJelKarlus to Enqieror Justinian, and induced the Duke of Satherland tojiurchx-e two ajwrypha! letTers rrom Alchla-des Alchla-des to Pericles. |
