Of Rhodes, an
historical
writer, who is quoted could have been needed: the leap-year would never
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii.
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
So-
tumult which led to the destruction of Agathocles, sicles remonstrated with indignant vehemence
Sosibius took a decisive part, by appealing to the against the measure, and set forth the evils which
infant monarch himself to give up his hated fa- Corinth had endured under the successive tyrannies
vourites to the populace ; and it was probably on of Cypselus and Periander. His appeal was suc-
this account that he subsequently obtained the cessful with the allies, and the project was aban-
guardianship of the young king's person, with the doned. (Herod. v. 92, 93. )
[E. E. )
custody of the royal signet. These duties he dis- SOʻSICLES (Eworrañs), is mentioned by Fa-
charged in a manner that gave general satisfaction ;bricius, on the authority of Suidas and Eudocia, as
but the intrigues of his more turbulent and am- a tragic poet of the time of Philip and Alexander
bitious brother, Ptolemy, having involved him in the Great. It appears, however, from the best
an open rupture with Tlepolemus, who was at the MSS. of Suidas, that the name is erroneously in.
head of the administration, the latter obtained the troduced, owing to the text of Suidas being misread
advantage, and compelled Sosibius to resign his by some of his copyists, as well as by Eudocia.
office ; from which time we hear no more of him. According to the true reading of Suidas, Sosicles is
(Polyb. xv. 32, xvi. 22. )
[E. H. B. ) simply mentioned as the father of the tragic poet
SOSI'BIUS (Iwolltos), literary. 1. A philoso- Sosiphanes. (Suid. s. v. Ewolpávns, ed. Kuster ;
pher mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (ii. 46) as Eudoc. p. 384 ; Westermann, Vitarum Script.
having opposed the opinions of Anaxagoras; but it Graec. Min. p. 152, n. 65 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
does not follow necessarily that he was contempo vol. ii
. p. 322. )
[P. S. )
rary with Anaxagoras. Nothing more is known SOʻSICLES (Ewolkañs), artists. 1. A sculptor
of him.
of unknown age and country, whose name is found
2. A distinguished Lacedaemonian grammarian, inscribed on a statue of an Amazon in the Capitoline
who flourished in the reign of Ptolemy Philadel- Museum. (Mus. Cap. vol. iii. pl. 46. ) The exe-
phus (about B. C. 251), and was contemporary cution of the statue, we are told by Raoul Rochette,
with Callimachus. (Ath. xi. p. 493, f. , iv. p. 144, is very good, although the form of the letters of the
e. ) He was one of those writers who employed | inscription belongs to the later Roman empire.
32
VOL. I
## p. 882 (#898) ############################################
882
SOSICRATES.
SOSIGENES.
The inscription is of the following form, CWCIKAH, | ii. 13), is evidently copied from a quotation made
by Diogenes Laërtius from the Succession of Phi-
where the meaning of the sign below the name
losophers. The name is sometimes confounded
with Socrates. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 500,
has never been satisfactorily explained.
ed. Westermann; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. ii. p.
We owe to the same writer the publication of a 873, vol. vi. p. 138. )
[P. S. )
discovery by which the artist's name again appears. SOSI'GENES (Eworyévns). 1. An officer who
This is a plinth to which adhere the two feet and commanded the Phoenician fleet, which had been
one leg of the statue of a man, which it once sup- assembled by Eumenes to make head against his
ported. The execution of these remaining portions rivals in B. c. 318. The fleet had arrived at
is said by R. Rochette to correspond to that of the Rhosus, where it was detained by contrary winds,
Amazon. The plinth bears the following inscrip. when that of Antigonus suddenly arrived, adorned
tion, in large characters, CWCIKA. . . The frag- with garlands and other triumphal ornaments, from
ment was discovered at Tusculum, in 1842, in the its recent victory at the Hellespont. Sosigenes
course of the excavations undertaken by M. Canina, himself was on shore, and was unable to restrain
at the expense of the queen dowager of Sardinia ; the crews, who immediately declared in favour of
and it was to form (and now, we suppose, forms) a Antigonus, and joined the hostile fleet. (Polyaen.
part of the collection of ancient marbles found at iv. 6. $ 9. )
Tusculum, and preserved in the Villa della Rufi.
2. (Perhaps identical with the preceding. ) A
nella. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 403, friend of Demetrius Poliorcetes, who was one of
2d ed. )
the few that still remained with him in his retreat
2. Gem engraver. [SOSTHENES. ) [P. S. ) and wanderings after his last defeat by Seleucus,
SOSI'CRATES (Ewolkpátns), a vice-general of B. c. 286. He had preserved 400 pieces of gold,
the Achaeans in their war against the Romans which he now offered to Demetrius as a last
(B. c. 147), was the chief mover of the resolution, resource, and with this supply the king endea-
taken by an assembly held at Corinth, to endeavour voured to reach the coast, but was intercepted by
to treat with Metellus ; for which act, upon the the detachments of Seleucus, and compelled to sur-
arrival of Diaeus at Corinth, he was condemned to render at discretion. (Plut. Demetr. 49. )
death ; and, in the hope of extorting a confession 3. A Rhodian by birth, but who appears to
from him, he was subjected to the severest tortures, have held a magistracy among the Achaeans, whom
under which he expired. This cruel deed so dis- he persuaded to pass a decree abolishing all the
gusted the people, that Diaeus did not venture to honours which had been paid to Eumenes, king of
carry out his intention of putting to death the am- Pergamus. (Polyb. xxviii. 7; and Schweigh. ad
bassadors who had been sent to Metellus. (Polyb. loc. )
(E. H. B. )
xl. 5; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. viii. p. SOSI'GENES (Lworrévns), the peripatetic, the
451. )
[P. S. ] astronomer employed by Julius Caesar to super-
SÓSI'CRATES (Zwolkpárns), literary. 1. A intend the correction of the calendar (B. C. 46),
comic poet, whose time is unknown. Pollux quotes called an Egyptian, but may be supposed to have
twice from his play entitled napakatahun (Poll. been an Alexandrian Greek. With the exception
ix. 57, iv. 173 ; in both passages the name is cor- of certain allusions to him by name, which simply
rupted ; in the former into 'latokpátns, in the confirm the fact that he was considered a skilful
latter into Kpátns ; but in the latter passage a astronomer, nothing can be found concerning him.
manuscript has Σωσικράτης). His Φιλάδελφοι also | The most definite of them is that of Simplicius,
is cited by Athenaeus (xi. p. 474, a. ); and there who says he wrote on astronomy. A sentence of
are some other quotations from unknown plays of Pliny (H. N. ii. 8) is interpreted by Weidler as
his. (Ath. i. p. 31, e. ; Stob. Flor. xxiii. 2 ; implying that Sosigenes maintained the motion
Maxim. Conf. p. 198, Gesner. ) From the titles of of Mercury round the sun. Riccioli and others
his plays, Meineke thinks it more probable that he represent that he remained at Rome until the time
belonged to the New Comedy than to the Middle of Augustus, and aided in the final establishment
(Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 498, 499, of the calendar cording to the intention of Ju-
vol. iv. pp. 591, 592 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. lius. But it must be clear that if Sosigenes had
renained at Rome, the Augustan correction never
2.
Of Rhodes, an historical writer, who is quoted could have been needed: the leap-year would never
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii. 84) as an authority for have been made a triennial intercalation under the
the statement, that Aristippus wrote nothing. It eye of the astronomer himself. Nevertheless, Pliny
is therefore inferred, with much probability, that (H. N. xviii. 25) mentions the Augustan correction,
he is the same as the Sosicrates whose work upon most probably, as if it had been a correction of the
the Succession of the Philosophers is quoted by theory of the calendar, arising out of the further
Athenaeus (iv. p. 163, f, Eworkpátns év Tpítq | investigations of Sosigenes himself: his words are
φιλοσόφων διαδοχής). He also wrote a work on “ ea ipsa ratio postea comperto errore correcta
the history of Crete, Kontiká, which is frequently est, ita ut duodecim annis continuis non inter-
quoted. (Strab. x. p. 474 ; Ath. vi. p. 261, e, et calaretur . . . . et Sosigenes ipse tribus commenta-
alib. ) He flourished after Hermippus and before tionibus, quanquam diligentior esset ceteris, non ces-
Apollodorus, and therefore between B. c. 200 and savit tumen addubitare, ipse semet corrigendo. "
B. C. 128. (Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 565. ) According to our view of this passage the tres
There appear to have been other writers of the commentationcs are of the three occasions on which,
name ; such as Sosicrates Phanagorites, whose during the time of Augustus, an intercalation had
'Holoi is quoted by Athenaeus (xiii
. p. 590, b. ); to be omitted : Pliny seems to make each of them
and a certain Sosicrates quoted by Fulgentius a separate interference of Sosigenes (whom he may
Planciades (s. v. Nefrendes). The passage of a seem to keep alive at Rome for the purpose) for
Sosicrates of Cyzicus, cited by Fulgentius (-Myth. the correction of his period. And Weidler, in
p. 495. )
## p. 883 (#899) ############################################
SOSIPHANES.
883
SOSIS.
doing honour to the astronomer for his candour | by Suidas ; but, in the other three lists, the name
and caution, seems to follow Pliny. (Fabric. Bill. of Aeantides appears instead of Sosiphanes. If the
Grarc. vol. iv. p. 34 ; Weidler, Histor. Astron. latter really belonged to the Tragic Pleiad, he must
p. 151. )
[A. De M. ] have been the oldest of the seven poets in it
SOSI'NUS (Ewoivos), of Gortyna, in Crete, an Of the seventy-three plays of Sosiphanes, tho
artist or artificer, whose name is known by his only remains are one title, Menéaypos, and a very
sepulchral monument, on which he is designated few lines from it and other plays. (Fabric. Bili.
xalkóntos, a term which has been explained in Gracc. vol. ii. pp. 318, 322 ; Clinton, F. II. vol.
different ways. By comparing what little can be iii. s. aa. 278, 259, pp. 502, 504; Welcker, Griech.
gathered respecting the word itself with the bas. Tragöd. p. 1266 ; Wagner, Frag. Trug. Graec. in
relief on the monument, Böckh and Raoul-Rochette Didot's Bibliotheca, p. 157. )
[P. S. ]
have come to the conclusion, that the word significs SOSI'POLIS (Ewoimonis), i. e. the saviour of
a maker of bronze shields. The monument, which the state, was the name of a hero among the Eleans,
is in the Museum of the Louvre, has been engraved who was represented as a boy wearing a military
by Bouillon (Mus. des Antiq. vol. iii. Cippes, i. 3), cloak, and carrying the horn of Analthea in his
and the inscription is published by Böckh (Corp. hand. He had a sanctuary in common with Eilei-
Inscr. No. 837). (R. Rochette, Lettre à Schorn, thyia at the foot of the hill of Cronos at Olympia,
pp. 405, 406, 2d ed. ; comp. Welcker, Sylloge, No. and no one was allowed to approach his altar ex-
3, pp. 5-7. )
[P. S. ) cept the priestess, and even she only with her
SOSI'PATER (Ewoltatpos). 1. An Athenian head covered. Oaths in which he was called upon
comic poet, of the New, and perhaps also of the were considered to be particularly solemn and
Middle Comedy. He is only mentioned by Athe- binding. The origin of his worship is thus re-
naeus (ix. p. 378, f. ), who quotes a very long pas-lated :-Once when the Arcadians had invaded
sage from his Karayevdouévos, in which mention Elis and the Eleans had marched out to meet
is made of the cook Chariades, to whom the comic them, there appeared among the Eleans a woman
poet Euphron refers as being dead. (Ath. ix. p. with a boy at her breast and declaring that
379, c. ) . Hence it is inferred that Sosipater flou- after she had given birth to the child she had
rished shortly before Euphron. (Meineke, Fragm. been called upon by a vision in a dream, to offer
Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 477, vol. iv. pp. 482—485; the child as a champion to the Eleans. The com-
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 495. )
manders of the Eleans believing the assertion,
2. Three epigrams are found in the Greek An- placed the child naked before their ranks, and
thology under the name of Sosipater ; but this is when the Arcadians began the attack, the child
:
merely through an error of Salmasius. The epi- was metamorphosed into a serpent. Hereupon the
grams ought properly to be assigned to Dioscorides. Arcadians fled in dismay, and the Eleans pursuing
(Fabric. Bibi. Graec. vol
. iv. p. 495 ; Brunck, them gained the victory. The Eleans hence
Anal. vol. i. p. 504 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. called their saviour Sosipolis, and on the spot
255, vol. vii. pp. 371 406, vol. xii. p. 451, vol. where he had disappeared in the form of a snake
xiii. p. 955. )
(P. S. ] they built a sanctuary to him and his supposed
SOSI'PATER and ZENON, of Soli, statuaries, mother Eileithyia. (Paus. vi. 20. § 2, iii. 25.
known by an inscription found at Lindos as having $ 4. )
(L. S. )
made one of the bronze statues of the lepatevo av- SOSIPPUS (LÁOITTOS), a supposed comic poet
tes of Athena Lindia and Zeus Polieus. There of the New Comedy, the only mention of whom is
is some doubt as to the meaning of the term lepa in the following passage of Athenaeus (iv. p. 133,
TEÚDAVTES. Ross translates it priests, R. Rochette f. ), Alpinos de LMOITTOS Èv 'ATONinovon, where,
understands it as equivalent to the sacrificantes of since the name of Sosippus does not occur else-
Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 34), and Welcker where, Meineke proposes to read TooelOITTOS,
translates it ex-priests. (Ross, Rhein. Mus. 1846— adding, however, " quamquam ejusmodi conjecturis
1847, vol. iv. p. 168 ; Welcker, Rhein. Mus.
tumult which led to the destruction of Agathocles, sicles remonstrated with indignant vehemence
Sosibius took a decisive part, by appealing to the against the measure, and set forth the evils which
infant monarch himself to give up his hated fa- Corinth had endured under the successive tyrannies
vourites to the populace ; and it was probably on of Cypselus and Periander. His appeal was suc-
this account that he subsequently obtained the cessful with the allies, and the project was aban-
guardianship of the young king's person, with the doned. (Herod. v. 92, 93. )
[E. E. )
custody of the royal signet. These duties he dis- SOʻSICLES (Eworrañs), is mentioned by Fa-
charged in a manner that gave general satisfaction ;bricius, on the authority of Suidas and Eudocia, as
but the intrigues of his more turbulent and am- a tragic poet of the time of Philip and Alexander
bitious brother, Ptolemy, having involved him in the Great. It appears, however, from the best
an open rupture with Tlepolemus, who was at the MSS. of Suidas, that the name is erroneously in.
head of the administration, the latter obtained the troduced, owing to the text of Suidas being misread
advantage, and compelled Sosibius to resign his by some of his copyists, as well as by Eudocia.
office ; from which time we hear no more of him. According to the true reading of Suidas, Sosicles is
(Polyb. xv. 32, xvi. 22. )
[E. H. B. ) simply mentioned as the father of the tragic poet
SOSI'BIUS (Iwolltos), literary. 1. A philoso- Sosiphanes. (Suid. s. v. Ewolpávns, ed. Kuster ;
pher mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (ii. 46) as Eudoc. p. 384 ; Westermann, Vitarum Script.
having opposed the opinions of Anaxagoras; but it Graec. Min. p. 152, n. 65 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
does not follow necessarily that he was contempo vol. ii
. p. 322. )
[P. S. )
rary with Anaxagoras. Nothing more is known SOʻSICLES (Ewolkañs), artists. 1. A sculptor
of him.
of unknown age and country, whose name is found
2. A distinguished Lacedaemonian grammarian, inscribed on a statue of an Amazon in the Capitoline
who flourished in the reign of Ptolemy Philadel- Museum. (Mus. Cap. vol. iii. pl. 46. ) The exe-
phus (about B. C. 251), and was contemporary cution of the statue, we are told by Raoul Rochette,
with Callimachus. (Ath. xi. p. 493, f. , iv. p. 144, is very good, although the form of the letters of the
e. ) He was one of those writers who employed | inscription belongs to the later Roman empire.
32
VOL. I
## p. 882 (#898) ############################################
882
SOSICRATES.
SOSIGENES.
The inscription is of the following form, CWCIKAH, | ii. 13), is evidently copied from a quotation made
by Diogenes Laërtius from the Succession of Phi-
where the meaning of the sign below the name
losophers. The name is sometimes confounded
with Socrates. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 500,
has never been satisfactorily explained.
ed. Westermann; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. ii. p.
We owe to the same writer the publication of a 873, vol. vi. p. 138. )
[P. S. )
discovery by which the artist's name again appears. SOSI'GENES (Eworyévns). 1. An officer who
This is a plinth to which adhere the two feet and commanded the Phoenician fleet, which had been
one leg of the statue of a man, which it once sup- assembled by Eumenes to make head against his
ported. The execution of these remaining portions rivals in B. c. 318. The fleet had arrived at
is said by R. Rochette to correspond to that of the Rhosus, where it was detained by contrary winds,
Amazon. The plinth bears the following inscrip. when that of Antigonus suddenly arrived, adorned
tion, in large characters, CWCIKA. . . The frag- with garlands and other triumphal ornaments, from
ment was discovered at Tusculum, in 1842, in the its recent victory at the Hellespont. Sosigenes
course of the excavations undertaken by M. Canina, himself was on shore, and was unable to restrain
at the expense of the queen dowager of Sardinia ; the crews, who immediately declared in favour of
and it was to form (and now, we suppose, forms) a Antigonus, and joined the hostile fleet. (Polyaen.
part of the collection of ancient marbles found at iv. 6. $ 9. )
Tusculum, and preserved in the Villa della Rufi.
2. (Perhaps identical with the preceding. ) A
nella. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 403, friend of Demetrius Poliorcetes, who was one of
2d ed. )
the few that still remained with him in his retreat
2. Gem engraver. [SOSTHENES. ) [P. S. ) and wanderings after his last defeat by Seleucus,
SOSI'CRATES (Ewolkpátns), a vice-general of B. c. 286. He had preserved 400 pieces of gold,
the Achaeans in their war against the Romans which he now offered to Demetrius as a last
(B. c. 147), was the chief mover of the resolution, resource, and with this supply the king endea-
taken by an assembly held at Corinth, to endeavour voured to reach the coast, but was intercepted by
to treat with Metellus ; for which act, upon the the detachments of Seleucus, and compelled to sur-
arrival of Diaeus at Corinth, he was condemned to render at discretion. (Plut. Demetr. 49. )
death ; and, in the hope of extorting a confession 3. A Rhodian by birth, but who appears to
from him, he was subjected to the severest tortures, have held a magistracy among the Achaeans, whom
under which he expired. This cruel deed so dis- he persuaded to pass a decree abolishing all the
gusted the people, that Diaeus did not venture to honours which had been paid to Eumenes, king of
carry out his intention of putting to death the am- Pergamus. (Polyb. xxviii. 7; and Schweigh. ad
bassadors who had been sent to Metellus. (Polyb. loc. )
(E. H. B. )
xl. 5; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. viii. p. SOSI'GENES (Lworrévns), the peripatetic, the
451. )
[P. S. ] astronomer employed by Julius Caesar to super-
SÓSI'CRATES (Zwolkpárns), literary. 1. A intend the correction of the calendar (B. C. 46),
comic poet, whose time is unknown. Pollux quotes called an Egyptian, but may be supposed to have
twice from his play entitled napakatahun (Poll. been an Alexandrian Greek. With the exception
ix. 57, iv. 173 ; in both passages the name is cor- of certain allusions to him by name, which simply
rupted ; in the former into 'latokpátns, in the confirm the fact that he was considered a skilful
latter into Kpátns ; but in the latter passage a astronomer, nothing can be found concerning him.
manuscript has Σωσικράτης). His Φιλάδελφοι also | The most definite of them is that of Simplicius,
is cited by Athenaeus (xi. p. 474, a. ); and there who says he wrote on astronomy. A sentence of
are some other quotations from unknown plays of Pliny (H. N. ii. 8) is interpreted by Weidler as
his. (Ath. i. p. 31, e. ; Stob. Flor. xxiii. 2 ; implying that Sosigenes maintained the motion
Maxim. Conf. p. 198, Gesner. ) From the titles of of Mercury round the sun. Riccioli and others
his plays, Meineke thinks it more probable that he represent that he remained at Rome until the time
belonged to the New Comedy than to the Middle of Augustus, and aided in the final establishment
(Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 498, 499, of the calendar cording to the intention of Ju-
vol. iv. pp. 591, 592 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. lius. But it must be clear that if Sosigenes had
renained at Rome, the Augustan correction never
2.
Of Rhodes, an historical writer, who is quoted could have been needed: the leap-year would never
by Diogenes Laërtius (ii. 84) as an authority for have been made a triennial intercalation under the
the statement, that Aristippus wrote nothing. It eye of the astronomer himself. Nevertheless, Pliny
is therefore inferred, with much probability, that (H. N. xviii. 25) mentions the Augustan correction,
he is the same as the Sosicrates whose work upon most probably, as if it had been a correction of the
the Succession of the Philosophers is quoted by theory of the calendar, arising out of the further
Athenaeus (iv. p. 163, f, Eworkpátns év Tpítq | investigations of Sosigenes himself: his words are
φιλοσόφων διαδοχής). He also wrote a work on “ ea ipsa ratio postea comperto errore correcta
the history of Crete, Kontiká, which is frequently est, ita ut duodecim annis continuis non inter-
quoted. (Strab. x. p. 474 ; Ath. vi. p. 261, e, et calaretur . . . . et Sosigenes ipse tribus commenta-
alib. ) He flourished after Hermippus and before tionibus, quanquam diligentior esset ceteris, non ces-
Apollodorus, and therefore between B. c. 200 and savit tumen addubitare, ipse semet corrigendo. "
B. C. 128. (Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 565. ) According to our view of this passage the tres
There appear to have been other writers of the commentationcs are of the three occasions on which,
name ; such as Sosicrates Phanagorites, whose during the time of Augustus, an intercalation had
'Holoi is quoted by Athenaeus (xiii
. p. 590, b. ); to be omitted : Pliny seems to make each of them
and a certain Sosicrates quoted by Fulgentius a separate interference of Sosigenes (whom he may
Planciades (s. v. Nefrendes). The passage of a seem to keep alive at Rome for the purpose) for
Sosicrates of Cyzicus, cited by Fulgentius (-Myth. the correction of his period. And Weidler, in
p. 495. )
## p. 883 (#899) ############################################
SOSIPHANES.
883
SOSIS.
doing honour to the astronomer for his candour | by Suidas ; but, in the other three lists, the name
and caution, seems to follow Pliny. (Fabric. Bill. of Aeantides appears instead of Sosiphanes. If the
Grarc. vol. iv. p. 34 ; Weidler, Histor. Astron. latter really belonged to the Tragic Pleiad, he must
p. 151. )
[A. De M. ] have been the oldest of the seven poets in it
SOSI'NUS (Ewoivos), of Gortyna, in Crete, an Of the seventy-three plays of Sosiphanes, tho
artist or artificer, whose name is known by his only remains are one title, Menéaypos, and a very
sepulchral monument, on which he is designated few lines from it and other plays. (Fabric. Bili.
xalkóntos, a term which has been explained in Gracc. vol. ii. pp. 318, 322 ; Clinton, F. II. vol.
different ways. By comparing what little can be iii. s. aa. 278, 259, pp. 502, 504; Welcker, Griech.
gathered respecting the word itself with the bas. Tragöd. p. 1266 ; Wagner, Frag. Trug. Graec. in
relief on the monument, Böckh and Raoul-Rochette Didot's Bibliotheca, p. 157. )
[P. S. ]
have come to the conclusion, that the word significs SOSI'POLIS (Ewoimonis), i. e. the saviour of
a maker of bronze shields. The monument, which the state, was the name of a hero among the Eleans,
is in the Museum of the Louvre, has been engraved who was represented as a boy wearing a military
by Bouillon (Mus. des Antiq. vol. iii. Cippes, i. 3), cloak, and carrying the horn of Analthea in his
and the inscription is published by Böckh (Corp. hand. He had a sanctuary in common with Eilei-
Inscr. No. 837). (R. Rochette, Lettre à Schorn, thyia at the foot of the hill of Cronos at Olympia,
pp. 405, 406, 2d ed. ; comp. Welcker, Sylloge, No. and no one was allowed to approach his altar ex-
3, pp. 5-7. )
[P. S. ) cept the priestess, and even she only with her
SOSI'PATER (Ewoltatpos). 1. An Athenian head covered. Oaths in which he was called upon
comic poet, of the New, and perhaps also of the were considered to be particularly solemn and
Middle Comedy. He is only mentioned by Athe- binding. The origin of his worship is thus re-
naeus (ix. p. 378, f. ), who quotes a very long pas-lated :-Once when the Arcadians had invaded
sage from his Karayevdouévos, in which mention Elis and the Eleans had marched out to meet
is made of the cook Chariades, to whom the comic them, there appeared among the Eleans a woman
poet Euphron refers as being dead. (Ath. ix. p. with a boy at her breast and declaring that
379, c. ) . Hence it is inferred that Sosipater flou- after she had given birth to the child she had
rished shortly before Euphron. (Meineke, Fragm. been called upon by a vision in a dream, to offer
Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 477, vol. iv. pp. 482—485; the child as a champion to the Eleans. The com-
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 495. )
manders of the Eleans believing the assertion,
2. Three epigrams are found in the Greek An- placed the child naked before their ranks, and
thology under the name of Sosipater ; but this is when the Arcadians began the attack, the child
:
merely through an error of Salmasius. The epi- was metamorphosed into a serpent. Hereupon the
grams ought properly to be assigned to Dioscorides. Arcadians fled in dismay, and the Eleans pursuing
(Fabric. Bibi. Graec. vol
. iv. p. 495 ; Brunck, them gained the victory. The Eleans hence
Anal. vol. i. p. 504 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. called their saviour Sosipolis, and on the spot
255, vol. vii. pp. 371 406, vol. xii. p. 451, vol. where he had disappeared in the form of a snake
xiii. p. 955. )
(P. S. ] they built a sanctuary to him and his supposed
SOSI'PATER and ZENON, of Soli, statuaries, mother Eileithyia. (Paus. vi. 20. § 2, iii. 25.
known by an inscription found at Lindos as having $ 4. )
(L. S. )
made one of the bronze statues of the lepatevo av- SOSIPPUS (LÁOITTOS), a supposed comic poet
tes of Athena Lindia and Zeus Polieus. There of the New Comedy, the only mention of whom is
is some doubt as to the meaning of the term lepa in the following passage of Athenaeus (iv. p. 133,
TEÚDAVTES. Ross translates it priests, R. Rochette f. ), Alpinos de LMOITTOS Èv 'ATONinovon, where,
understands it as equivalent to the sacrificantes of since the name of Sosippus does not occur else-
Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 34), and Welcker where, Meineke proposes to read TooelOITTOS,
translates it ex-priests. (Ross, Rhein. Mus. 1846— adding, however, " quamquam ejusmodi conjecturis
1847, vol. iv. p. 168 ; Welcker, Rhein. Mus.
