Soter
- A savior, deliverer, preserver, a giver of health or safety is est nimirum soter, qui salutem dedit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 63, § 154.—Acc.: sotera, Cic. l.l.: hodieque ara in Capitolio est Jovis Soteris, Serv. Verg. A. 8, 652; cf. Servator.—
- II In partic.
- A Soter, of Jesus the Saviour, Tert. adv. Valent. 16 sq. al.—
- B An epithet of Ptolemaeus I., king of Egypt, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 208.
(Σώτηρ), i. e. "the Saviour" (Lat. Servator or Sospes), occurs as the surname of several divinities :--1. of Zeus in Argos (Paus. 2.20.5), at Troezene (2.31.14), in laconia (3.23.6), at Messene (4.31.5), at Mantineia (8.9. § l), at Megalopolis (8.30.5; comp. Aristoph. Ran. 1433 ; Plin. Nat. 34.8). The sacrifices offered to him were called όωτήρια. (Plut. Arat. 53.) 2. Of Helios (Paus. 8.31.4), and 3. of Bacchus. (Lycoph. 206.) [L.S]
(Σωτήρ), the Preserver, a surname of Ptolemaeus I. king of Egypt, as well as of several of the other later Greek kings.
is supposed, on the authority of an inscription, to have been an artist in the fine species of mosaic, which was practised under the Roman emperors; but the matter is open to controversy. The inscription (Orelli, Inscr. Lat. No. 4262), mentions the name of Soter as Pictoris Quadrigulari, which Welcker and others have explained in the above manner; but Raoul-Rochette, with more ingenuity than sound judgment, brings forward various arguments for reading Pistoris, and so turning the artist into a baker! (Welcker, Rhein. Mus. vol. i. p. 289; Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst, § 322, n. 4; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 443-445, 2d ed.) [P.S]
(Σωτήρ, i. e. “the saviour”; Lat. Servātor or Sospes). A title, occurs as the surname of several divinities, especially of Zeus. It was also a surname of Ptolemaeus I., king of Egypt, as well as of several of the other later Greek kings. See Ptolemaeus.