Simus
artists.
1. A painter, of second-rate merit, to whom Pliny ascribes the following works: a youth resting in a fuller's workshop; a person celebrating the festival called Quinquatrus; and an excellent picture of Nemesis. (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40.39).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.