(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.
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).
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.)
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