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SOTADES

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 435 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOTADES , Greek satirist, of Maronea in Thrace (or of
Crete
 ),
chief
  representative of the writers of coarse satirical poems, called idvatSot,' composed in the Ionic dialect and in a metre named after him " sotadic." He lived in Alexandria during the reign of
Ptolemy
  II. Philadelphus (285247 B.c.). For a violent attack on the king, on the occasion of his
marriage
  to his own
sister
  Arsinoe, Sotades was imprisoned, but escaped to the
island
  of Caunus, where he was afterwards captured by Patroclus,
Ptolemy
 's
admiral
 , shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea (Athenaeus xiv. p. 62o;
Plutarch
 , De educatione puerorum, 14).
Only a few genuine fragments of Sotades have been preserved (see J. G. Hermann, Elementa doctrinae metricae, 1816) ; those in Stobaeus are generally considered spurious. Ennius translated some poems of this kind, included in his book of satires, under the name of Sota.


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