 If the "Suda"s testimony that Semonides participated in the colonization of Amorgos is true, he likely had a political career similar to that of Archilochus, who was among the colonists of Thasos.Although the "Suda" states that Semonides composed elegy as well iambus, none of his elegiac poetry has survived.If the encyclopedia's information is to be trusted, it is probable that the first entry's "elegiac poetry in two books" refers to the "Early History of Samos" in the second.