A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

36. Of THESSALONICA. Little is known of the personal history of Symeon, archbishop of Thessalonica, except that he lived in the first half of the fifteenth century, and held his see for between five and six years, dying Sept. A. D. 1429, about six months before Thessalonica was taken by the Turks under Amurath. Joannes Anagnostes, in his De Thessalonicensi Excidio Narratio (100.3), has noticed the death of Symeon, who was generally lamented ; and relates a curious dream, by which his decease and the subsequent ruin of the city were supposed to be portended.