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SOTADES

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOTADES , See also:

Greek satirist, of Maronea in See also:Thrace (or of See also:Crete), See also:chief representative of the writers of coarse satirical poems, called idvatSot,' composed in the Ionic See also:dialect and in a See also:metre named after him " sotadic." He lived in See also:Alexandria during the reign of See also:Ptolemy II. Philadelphus (285–247 B.c.). For a violent attack on the See also:king, on the occasion of his See also:marriage to his own See also:sister See also:Arsinoe, Sotades was imprisoned, but escaped to the See also:island of Caunus, where he was afterwards captured by Patroclus, Ptolemy's See also:admiral, shut up in a leaden See also:chest, and thrown into the See also:sea (See also:Athenaeus xiv. p. 62o; See also:Plutarch, De educatione puerorum, 14). Only a few genuine fragments of Sotades have been preserved (see J. G. See also:Hermann, Elementa doctrinae metricae, 1816) ; those in See also:Stobaeus are generally considered See also:spurious. See also:Ennius translated some poems of this See also:kind, included in his See also:book of satires, under the name of Sota.

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