Suidas tells us that he wrote epitomes of numerous works, and that some ascribed to him the (ἐκλογὴν τῶν ἱστοριῶν), which, we may therefore infer, others attributed to the elder Sopater. Photius (Bibl. Cod. 161) has preserved an abstract of this ἐκλογὴ, or, as he calls it, ἐκλογαὶ διάφοροι, from which it appears that the work contained a vast variety of facts and figments, collected from a great number of authors. A list of the writers quoted by Sopater is given by Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. x. pp. 720-722; comp. vol. ii. p. 321, vol. iii. p. 51, vol. iv. p. 250, and Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 294, ed. Westermann).

The rhetorical and grammatical works under the name of Sopater are the following :--