With Uranios Simonides talks of 76 manuscripts, 46 are palimpsests
It's self evident from Simonides various works, that Simonides planned a whole flood of Hermas forgeries (papyri, parchment, palimpsests etc).
Yes.
He planned a flood of forgeries.
See below:
"Report of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature on Some of the Mayer Papyri, and the Palimpsest MS. of Uranius Belonging to M. Simonides - With Letters from MM. Pertz, Ehrenberg, and Dindorf"
Volume 3, By Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
1863
Subheading: VI. [Translation of the preceding Report]
[Page 17: V. Report of Dr. G. H. PErrz, on the Manuscript of the Uranius, presented to the Royal Academy of Berlin, January 30th, 1856.
[Hitherto Unprinted.] UEBER DIE HANDSCHRIFT DES URANIOS]
ON THE MANUSCRIPT OF URANIUS.
Page 22
"Thus, the appearance of a manuscript of Uranius coming from the hand of the well-known Greek, Simonides, had justly to be received
with the greatest distrust, which was not diminished by the mode in which the sale of the manuscript was negotiated, and was heightened
by the seventy-six manuscripts announced in connection with this find, forty-six of which were said to contain palimpsests, while one offered at once the wanting literary references of the authors who there made their first appearance..."
