Sosander
(Σώσανδρος).
1. A foster-brother of king Attalus. He distinguished himself in the war between the latter and Prusias by his defence of Elaea (Polyb. 32.25).
2. A navigator referred to in the epitome of Artemidorus of Ephesus (p. 63), as the author of a work on India. (Vossius, de Hist. Graecis, p. 500, ed. Westermann.) [C.P.M]
(Σώσανδρος), the seventeenth in descent from Aesculapius, who lived in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. He was the son of Herachdes and brother of Hippocrates II., the most famous of that name. (Le Clerc, Hist. de la Méd.)
A physician of the same name (who must have lived some time before the first century after Christ, and who may possibly be the same person), is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. 4.7. vol. xii. p. 733), who has preserved one of his medical formulae. See also Aetius (2.3. 78. p. 332.) [W.A.G]
- father of wrestler Sosander, fined by umpires at Olympia: Paus. 5.21.16ff., Paus. 6.23.4
- son of Sosander, a wrestler: Paus. 5.21.16