Soter, a surname of the first Ptolemy.——It was also common to other monarchs.
Soteria, days appointed for thanksgivings and the offerings of sacrifices for deliverance from danger. One of these was observed at Sicyone, to [♦]commemorate the deliverance of that city from the hands of the Macedonians, by Aratus.
[♦] ‘commemmorate’ replaced with ‘commemorate’
Soterĭcus, a poet and historian in the age of Diocletian. He wrote a panegyric on that emperor, as also a life of Apollonius Thyanæus. His works, greatly esteemed, are now lost, except some few fragments preserved by the scholiast of Lycophron.
Sothis, an Egyptian name of the constellation called Sirius, which received divine honours in that country.
Sotiates, a people of Gaul, conquered by Cæsar. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 3, chs. 20 & 21.
Sotion, a grammarian and philosopher of Alexandria, preceptor to Seneca. Seneca, ltrs. 49 & 58.
Sotius, a philosopher in the reign of Tiberius.
Sous, a king of Sparta, who made himself known by his valour, &c.
Sozŏmen, an ecclesiastical historian, who died 450 A.D. His history extends from the year 324 to 429, and is dedicated to Theodosius the younger, being written in a style of inelegance and mediocrity. The best edition is that of Reading, folio, Cambridge, 1720.