Steven Avery
Administrator
The last point on which I wish to comment is Simonides’ friendship with John
Eliot Hodgkin, probably the closest friend that he had during the last years of his
English stay. It was Hodgkin who supplied Simonides with practical and fi-
nancial support and, above all, acted as mediator with a wide network of anti-
quarians and bibliophiles, amateur scholars, New Testament specialists, pub-
lishers and booksellers, and with the press. It is thanks to Hodgkin’s commit-
ment and care that the documents today gathered in the British Library
Additional 42502AB survive.
48 More details on the friendship and collaboration between Simonides and Hodgkin can be
found in Canfora 2010.
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