Sosipater

(Σωσίπαγρος).

1. An Athenian comic poet, of the New, and perhaps also of the Middle Comedy. He is only mentioned by Athenaeus (ix. p. 378f.), who quotes a very long passage from his Καγαψευδομένος, in which mention is made of the cook Chariades, to whom the comic poet Euphron refers as being dead. (Ath. ix. p. 379c.) Hence it is inferred that Sosipater flourished shortly before Euphron. (Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 477, vol. iv. pp. 482-485 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 495.)

2. Three epigrams are found in the Greek Anthology under the name of Sosipater; but this is merely through an error of Salmasius. The epigrams ought properly to be assigned to Dioscorides. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 495; Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 504; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 255, vol. vii. pp. 371, 406, vol. xii. p. 451, vol. xiii. p. 955.) [P.S]

and ZENON, of Soli, statuaries, known by an inscription found at Lindos as having made one of the bronze statues of the ἱεραγεύσαντες of Athena Lindia and Zeus Polieus. There is some doubt as to the meaning of the term ἱερατεύσαντες. Ross translates it priests, R. Rochette understands it as equivalent to the sacrificantes of Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.34), and Welcker translates it ex-priests. (Ross, Rhein. Mus. 1846-1847, vol. iv. p. 168; Welcker, Rhein. Mus. 1848-1849, vol. vi. pp. 382, 385.) [P.S]