Sotion

(Σωτίων). There appear to have been three or four philosophers of this name. The following alone are worth noticing :--

1. A native of Alexandria, who flourished at the close of the third century B. C. (Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. p. 526.) Nothing is known of his personal history. Works

He is chiefly remarkable as the author of a work, entitled Διαδοχαί, on the successive teachers in the different philosophical schools. It is quoted very frequently by Diogenes Laertius (2.12, 26. 5.86, &c.), and Athenaeus (iv. p. 162e., &c.) It consisted of at least 23 books (Diog. Laert. prooem. 1. 7). He was also, apparently, the author of a work, περὶ τῶν Τίμωνος σιλλων (Athen. 8.336d.), and of a work entitled Διόκλειοι ἔλεφχοι (D. L. 10.4).

2. Also a native of Alexandria, who lived in the age of Tiberius. He was the instructor of Seneca, who derived from him his admiration of Pythagoras (Seneca, Epist. 108). Works

It was perhaps this Sotion who was the author of a treatise on anger, quoted by Stobaeus (Floril. 14.10, 20.53, 84.6-8, 17, 18, 108.59, 113.15). Plutarch also quotes him (Alex. 100.61), as the authority for certain statements respecting towns founded by Alexander the Great in India, which he had heard from his contemporary Potamon the Lesbian. Vossius conjectures that it is the same Sotion who is quoted by Tzetzes (Chiliad. 7.144) as the authority for some other statements relating to India, which he probably drew from the same source.

3. The Peripatetic philosopher, mentioned by A. Gellius(N. A. 1.8) as the author of a miscellaneous work entitled Κέρας Ἀμαλθείας, is probably a different person from either of the preceding. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 233, &c. ; Schöll, Gesch. der griech. Lit. vol. ii. pp. 22, 576, 641; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 874, vol. iii. pp. 52, 505, 576.) [C.P.M]

(Σωτίων). (1) An Alexandrian philosopher of the third century B.C., who wrote a work called Διαδοχαί on the different teachers of the schools of philosophy (Diog. Laert. v. 86).

(2) The teacher of the Roman philosopher Seneca (Epist. 108).