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Soana,

A ryuer in the yle Taprobane.

Soanes,

People of Asia, dwelling about the extréeme part of the mountaine called Caucasus.

Socrates,

An excellent philosopher, sonne of Sophroniscus the Mason, and Phaenareta a mydwyfe: who being first studious in naturall philosophie, finally gaue hymselfe to morall philosophie, teaching openly vertue, and so di∣ligently ensued it in his lyuing, and in disputing was so sharpe and so sure agaynst them that were called So∣phistae, that Apollo being demaunded who was the wi∣sest man lyuing, aunswered Socrates. He was maister to Plato, Xenophon, Xenocra••es, and other the greatest philosophers at that tyme lyuing. Besydes hys excel∣lencie in vertue and knowledge, he was of a rare and marueylous nature. For he mought sustaine colde, la∣bour, hunger and thirst, aboue any man at that tyme, as Al••••blades declareth in Plato. He affirmed that there was alwayes with him a spirit or spirituall power cal∣led Daemonium, the which as often as he was mooued to doe any thing not conuenient or necessarie, that spirite touched him, and did prohibit him to do it. Vnder sharpe and mery tauntes in the fourme of argument called In∣ductio, he caused men to perceyue their ignorance, where before they thought themselues to be wyse. Finally be∣ing enuyed of them which did then beare chiefe rule in Athens, he was accused of Any••us, Melissus the poet, and Lycon the oratour, that he spake against their gods and corrupted their children with peruerse doctrine: but he contemning death, would suffer no man to speake for him, and so drinking poyson with a ioyous countenance, and saying to Anytus, I bring thée good lucke, dyed in∣continent. But soone after, the people were so sorie for his death, that of his accusers, some they slue, and some they exyled, and did set vp openly the Image of Socra∣tes made of Copper. He was before the incarnation of Christ .367. yeares.

Socraticus, a, um,

That followeth the doctrine of Socrates: of or belonging to Socrates.

Socus,

A Troian, the sonne of Hippasus.

Sodoma, mae,

foem. gen. and Sodomum, mi, n. gen. or Sodoma, orum, A citie in Iudaea, which for sinne done against nature, was by Almightie God consumed by celestiall fire.

Sogdiana,

A countrey in Asia, extending to the north part of Scithia.

Solidurij,

or rather Soldurij, Were men of warre in Fraūce in the tyme of Iulius Caesar, which being once retayned wyth anye people or Capitayne, were so addicted vnto them, that in their quarrelles they would die: or if victo∣rie inclined on the other part, they woulde slea themsel∣ues: they are called of the Latines Deuoti.

Solis insula,

An yle in the Indian sea.

Solis ostia,

Places in Indie, where Alexāder was in great daunger by reason of great heate.

Solis mensa,

A place in Aethiope, where the Tables be al∣wayes

Soloe,

A citie of Cilicia, the people whereof be called So∣lenses:

Solon,

A noble man of Athens, which by his mother lini∣ally discended from Codrus the last king of Athens: he was a man of excel••ent witte, and called one of the seuen wyse men of Greece, and was in such authoritie in that citie, that he made and gaue to them lawes, which were neuer repelled: notwithstanding, when Pisistratus his kinsman wente aboute to chaunge the fourme of that common weale, which was popular, into a Monarchie, he willingly went in exyle, and so dyed: Reade of him in Croesus. When he was writing of his lawes, Ana∣charsis the philosopher say•• that Solons lawes should be like to Cobwebs, and little flies intangled in them, but great flyes shoulde make holes and breake through them.

Solymae,

plu. The Citie of Hierusalem: an other Citie in Cilicia.

Solymi,

People by Lycia.

Sophaci,

People of Affrike.

Sophenae,

People of Armenia.

Sophilus.

A Thebane poet.

Sóphocles,

A wryter of tragedyes. Also the name of diuers other learned men.

Sophoclêus, a, um,

Of Sophocles.

Sophrónia,

A matrone of Rome, in the tyme of Decius the Emperour.

Sora,

A towne of the Volscians in Campaine.

Sorani,

People called also Hirpini.

Soranus,

A phisition of Ephesus, which liued at Alexan∣dria.

Soracte, tis,

neut. gen. Sorax, ractis, and Soractes, tis, foe. gen. An hyll .xx. myles from Rome.

Soritae,

People which are deuided from India by the ry∣uer called Arabis.

Sosia,

A mans name.

Sosij,

Certayne bookesellers.

Sosípatra,

A prophetesse of Libya, the wyfe of Aedesius the Sophister.

Sóstratus,

A mans name, which buylded the Tower in the yle Pharos.

Sotades,

The name of a lasciuious and wanton poet.

Sotericus,

A poet which wrote Dioclesians prayses.

Soticena,

One of the names of Iuno.