His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Now we saw this kind of graphic earlier on, that we really live on a hard marble that has just a slight bit of wetness to it.

However, the Parian Marble is known to be unreliable and possibly it was not even the grandfather but a grandson that won the aforementioned victory in Athens.

There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.