A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

888 SOTADES. SOTERICHUS.
numerous coins of Histiaea in Euboea. Raoul among Greek churchmen Arius was accused by
Rochette remarks, that it is very curious to find Athanasius of writing in a style approaching to the
the artist's name thus engraved on one of a class " Sotadean poems." (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii.
which are perhaps the most abundant of any of the pp. 495, 496; Clinton, F. II. vol. iii. s. a. 280,
Greek medals, and that, too, in a part of Greece p. 500.)
which had before furnished no other example of 3. An Athenian philosopher, who wrote a book
such an usage. (R. Rochette, Lettre a Ml. Schorn, on the mysteries. (Suid. s. v.)
p. 97, 2d ed.) [P. S.] 4. A philosopher of Byzantium, of whom we
SO'TADES (eTdaci1s). 1. An Athenian comic know nothing but his name. (Suid. s. v.) [P. S.]
poet of the Middle Comedy (Suid. s. v.), of SOTEIRA (c-respa),i. e. "the savilg goddess"
whose plays we have the two following titles, (Lat. Sospita), occurs as a surname of several female'EycXeLELYveaL or'EytcXielo/uevoi (Ath. vii. p. divinities in Greece, e.g. 1. of Artemis at Pegae in
293, a.; Antiatt. p. 102), and IIapaXhvpo0i.ey'oS Megaris (Paus. i. 40. ~ 2, 44. ~ 7), at Troezene
(Ath. ix. p. 368, a.) Both these are erroneously (ii. 31. ~ 1), at Boeae in Laconia (iii. 22. ~ 9),
ascribed by Suidas and Eudocia to the more cele- near Pellene (vii. 27. ~ 1); 2. of Persephone in
brated poet of Maroneia, with whom, indeed, the Laconia (iii. 13. ~ 2), in Arcadia (viii. 31. ~ 1);
comic poet was so frequently confounded, even in 3. of Athena (Schol. ad Plat. p. 90, ed. Ruhnken;
ancient times, that Athenaeus (vii. p. 293, a.) ex- Aristot. Rket. iii. 18); and 4. of Eunomia (Pind.
pressly distinguishes them from one another. (Fa- 01. ix. 25.) [L. S.]
bric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 495; Meineke, Frag. SOTER (:c7Vdap), i. e. "the Saviour" (Lat.
C(om. Graec. vol. i. p. 426, vol. iii. p. 585.) Servator or Sospes), occurs as the surname of se2. A native of Maroneia in Thrace (or, according veral divinities:-1. of Zeus in Argos (Paus. ii.
to others, of Crete, but he is generally called 20. ~ 5), at Troezene (ii. 31. ~ 14), in Laconia
Mapaeg'srVi), flourished at Alexandria about B. c. (iii. 23. ~ 6), at Messene (iv. 31. ~ 5), at Mantineia
280. He wrote lascivious poems, called pXvaKCes or (viii. 9. ~ 1), at Megalopolis (viii. 30. ~ 5; comp.
Ki'vaiaoi, in the Ionic dialect, whence they were Aristoph. Ran. 1433; Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8).
also called'Iu'vcol Ahdyol. (Suid. s. v.; Ath. xiv. The sacrifices offered to him were called CawcoT1pa.
p. 620, e.) They were also called.oordasea oauaTa. (Plut. Arat. 53.) 2. Of Helios (Panus. viii. 31. ~
(Socrat. H. E. i. 9.) As other examples of this 4), and 3. of Bacchus. (Lycoph. 206.) [L. S.]
species of composition, Athenaeus and Suidas men- SOTER (w7-iT?), the Preserver, a surname of
tion the works of Alexander the Aetolian, Pyres Ptolemaeus I. king of Egypt, as well as of several
(or Pyrrhus) the Milesian, Alexas, Theodorus, of the other later Greek kings.
Timocharidas and Xenarchus. Strabo (xiv. p. 648) SOTER, JULIUS, is supposed, on the authority
ascribes the beginning of this species to Sotades, of an inscription, to have been an artist in the fine
who, as well as his successor, Alexander the Aeto- species of mosaic, which was practised under the
lian, wrote in prose, while Lysis and Simus wrote Roman emperors; but the matter is open to conin metre; but there is sonle error in this state- troversy. The inscription (Orelli, Inscr. Lat. No.
nent, for we have express information respecting 4262), mentions the name of Soter as PICTORIS
the kind of metre which Sotades employed. It QUADRIGULARI, which Welcker and others have
would seem that Sotades carried his lascivious and explained in the above manner; but Raoul-Roabusive satire to the utmost lengths; this appears chette, with more ingenuity than sound judgment,
to be what Suidas means by calling him 8alio- brings forward various arguments for reading PisVo0fi's. The freedoms which he took at last tois, and so turning the artist into a baker!
brought him into trouble. According to Plutarch (Welcker, Rhein. MAls. vol. i. p. 289; Miiller,
(Op. Mlor. p. II, a.) he made a vehement and gross Archiiol. d. Kunst, ~ 322, n. 4; R. Rochette, Le/tre
attack on Ptolemy Philadelphus, on the occasion a Af. Schorn, pp. 443-445, 2d ed.) [P. S.]
of his marriage with his sister Arsinoe, and the SOTE'RIA (Gc2rTqp[a), i. e., the personification
king threw him into prison, where he rotted for a of safety or recovery (Lat. Salus) was worshipped
long time. According to Athenaeus (1. c.), the poet as a divinity in Greece, and had a Temple and a
attacked both Lysimachus and Ptolemy, and, statue at Patrae (Paus. vii. 21. ~ 2,24. ~ 2). [L.S.]
having fled from Alexandria, he was overtaken at SOTE'RICHUS (Yo.WrpIxoS). 1. Of AlexCaunus by Ptolemy's general Patroclus, who shut andria, a distinguished musician. (Plut. de Alus. 2.)
him up in a leaden chest and cast him into the sea. 2. Of the Oasis, an epic poet of the time of
Of his works, we possess a few lines, and the Diocletian. Suidas (s. v.) mentions, as his works,
following titles: —Aacwvis (Hephaest. p. 8, ed. an Encomium on Diocletian, a poem entitled BaoGaisford);'Aadc6ev (Suid.) els ouv tKaotrdaars iaptcad T'o Aioovt'uaKcd, in four books, one on
(Suid.); elr BeXAeTriXqvY (Suid.);'Itias (Hephaest. Pantheia of Babylon (r& Kara I nd1hOiav T'lV BaCvp. 21); Inpir`ros (Suid.). Xwviav), another on Ariadne (ha' KeTra'AptLv-qv),
The metre which he generally used, and which a life of Apollonius of Tyana, a poetical history of
was called after him the Sotadean verse, was Ionic the taking of Thebes by Alexander the Great,
a Majore Tetrameter Brachycatalectic entitled rII0oo, )'AX eavpiplaKtc, and others. A
scholiast on Lycophron (486) quotes a passage
from his KaXvotlaKad. (Fabric. Bibl. Giaec. vol.
admitting, however, of several variations. (Hephaest. iii. p. 52; ATossits, de Hist. Graec. pp. 293, 294,
p. 63; Gaisf. ad Ilepihaest. p. 319). ed. Westermann.) [P. S.]
Athenaeus (xiv. p. 620, e.) refers to commenta- SOTE'RICUS, MA'RCIUS, a freedman, from
ries on Sotades and his works by his son Apollo- whom L. Crassus purchased his Tusculan villa
nius, and by Carystius of Pergamus. He appears (Cic. pro Balb. 25). A. Gellius (xii. 2) makes
to have had many imitators. Of the Latin poets, mention of an inferior workman of the name of
Ennius, L. Accius, and others, are said to have' Sotericus, who must, however, have been a difc'mposed poems of the same species; and even ferent person from the preceding.