SOT 



SOU 



SospiRO, yll Canone. See Canone at Sofpiro. 



SOSSINATI, in ylncient Geography, a name given to 

 one of the four claffes of mountaineers in the ifle of Sar- 

 dinia, who took up their abode in caverns. Strabo. 



SOSSIUS, a river on the fouthern coaft of Sicily, be- 

 tween the town Pintia and the mouth of the river Ifbarus. 

 Ptolemy. 



SOSTENUTO, in Italian Mufic, Soutenu, Fr., fuf- 

 tained, continuing founds and unitnip them to each other, 

 in oppofition to fpiccato, detached. See Legato. 



SOSTI, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Calabria 

 Ultra ; lo miles S. of Squillace. 



SOSTRATUS, in Biography, the molt eminent archi- 

 teft of his time, was a native of Gnidos, in LelFer Afia, and 

 flourilhed in the third century before the Chriftian era. 

 The patronage which he met with, caufed him to be deno- 

 minated the friend of kings ; and he was particularly in 

 favour with Ptolemy Philadelphus, fovereign of Egypt. 

 He is celebrated in hiitory likewife for the terraces, fup- 

 ported on arcades, which adorned his native city ; and the 

 famous Pharos, the light-houfe of Alexandria, which was 

 reckoned one of the wonders of the world. He tranfmitted 

 his name to pofterity by an infcription on this light-houfe, 

 in the Greek language, of which the tranflation is, " Sof- 

 tratus of Gnidos, the fon of Dexiphanes, dedicates this to 

 the gods, the protedlors of navigators." 



SOSVA, in Geography, a river of Ruffia, which rifes in 

 the government of Tobolflc, N. lat. 6i° lo'. E. long. 59° 

 54', foon after enters into the province of Ekaterinburg, 

 and takes a fouthern courfe to lat. 59°, then bends its 

 courfe eallerly, and lofes itfelf in lake Phelim, in the go- 

 vernment of Tobolflc, N. lat. 59° 15'. E. long. 63° 54'.— 

 Alfo, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Oby, 40 miles 

 S. of Berezov. 



SOSZNIZOWITZ, or Saszinkowitz, a town of Si- 

 lefia, in the principality of Oppeln ; 35 miles S.E. of Op- 

 peln. N. lat. 50° 14'. E. long. 18° 28'. 



SOTA DE PALANA, a town of the ifland ef Cuba ; 

 1 00 miles S.W. of Havanna. 



SOTCHEOU, a town of Core^ 5 403 miles E. of Pe- 

 king. N. lat. 40° 9'. E. long. 124" 34'. 



SOTELLO, a town of Spain, in Old Callile ; 30 

 miles S. of Burgos.' 



SOTER, m Biography, pope, a native of Fondi, in the 

 Campagna of Rome, was elefted to the Roman fee on the 

 deceafe of Anicetus, in the year 168. During the period 

 that he ruled the church, the herefy of the Montanilts made 

 its appearance, and he is faid to have compofcd a book 

 againft their doftrines ; but as the title is not known, the 

 faft itfelf is liable to much doubt. Four decretals have 

 been afcribed to him, but they are generally regarded as 

 fpurious. He died in 176, and he has been enrolled among 

 the martyrs by modern writers, but no ancient one gives 

 him that title. He is, however, generally commended for 

 the contributions which he caufed to be railed for the relief 

 of the poor bretlu-en in foreign countries, and particularly 

 for thofe who were condemned to the mine?, on account of 

 their faith. 



SOTERIA, formed from a-urn^, favtour, in /Inliquity, 

 facrifices offered to the gods, in gratitude for their having 

 delivered a perfon from danger. See Sachifice. 



The term is alfo applied to poetical pieces compofed for 

 the fame end. Orpheus is the firlt who appears to have 

 compofed foteria. 



Our Latin poets give the fame name to poems in Latin 

 verfe, written to give thanks lo God, or the faints, for 

 having preferved them on any eccafion. F. Petavius being 



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delivered from a dangerous difeafe, by the interccflion, ais 

 he fuppofed, of St. Genevieve, compofed that fine piece 

 in honour of that faint, ftill extant under the title of " So- 

 teria." 



SOTERUS, in Ancient Geography, a port of the Ara- 

 bian gulf, according to Diodorus Siculus. 



SOTI, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the country 

 ofWhidah; 18 miles W. of Sabi. 



SOTI R A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Aria. Ptol. — Alfo, a town of Alia, in Cappadocia, Pliny. 

 — Alfo, a town of Parthia. Arrian. 



SOTIRELLA, a name given by fome to a compound 

 medicine, in form of a hard mafs, and conliiting of opium, 

 and fome other narcotics, with camphor, wood-loot, and 

 nutmeg. It is defcribed in the Auguftan Difpenfatory, 

 and is intended to be put into hollow lectli, as a remedy for 

 the tooth-ache. 



SOTO, DOiMiNlc, in Biography, a learned Spanifh cc- 

 clefiaftic, was born at Segovia in 1494- His father was a 

 gardener, and his circumftances being of a very humble na- 

 ture, he deftined his fon for the fame occupation ; but 

 having learned the elements of inllruftion, he officiated in 

 the duties of facriftan in a village church, and at length 

 rendered himfelf qualified to iludy philofophy at the uni- 

 verfity of Alcala. He afterwards completed his ftudies at 

 Paris ; and on returning to Spain, entered into the Do- 

 minican order. He was employed as a profellor in different 

 univerfities, and publiflied commentaries on the Ariilotelian 

 philofophy. Li 1545 he was deputed as a theologian to 

 the council of Trent, and was one of the perfons to whom 

 was committed the office of recording decifions of the af- 

 fembly, and drawing up its decrees. He was a frequent 

 and able fpeaker in the council, and maintained the pro- 

 pofition, " that the refidence of bifhops is of divine right." 

 The emperor Charles V., in 1549, offered him the bifhopric 

 of Segovia, which he refufed. He was, however, per- 

 fuaded to take the office of judging between Las Cafas and 

 Sepulveda, in their conteft relpefting the Indians, which 

 he determined in favour of the former. He then retired 

 to Salamanca, where he died in 1560. His chief works 

 are, " De Julticia et Jure ;" " De Tegendis Secretis ;" 

 " De Pauperum Caufa ;" " De Cavendo Juramentorura 

 Abufu." 



SOTOVENTO, in Geography, a name applied to the 

 Leller Antilles in the Welt Indies. Among thefe, the chief 

 may be reckoned Trinidad, Margarctta, Curaffoa, and 

 Tortngas. 



SoTovENTO Lobos, or Leeward IJland of Sea-lVohes or 

 Seals, an idaiid on the coaff of Peru ; 7 leagues from Barlc- 

 vento Lnbos, or Windward ifland of fea-wolves. It is 

 about 6 miles in circuit, and 15 miles from Cape Aguja. 



SOTTEGHEM, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 

 of Audeiiaerde. The place contains 1508, and the canton 

 14,603 inhabitants, on a territory of 77^ kiliometrct, in 

 14 communes. 



SOTTERN, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Nc- 

 ricia ; 14 miles S.E. of Orebro. 



SOTTEVAST, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Channel ; 9 miles W. of Valogncs. 



SOTTEVILLE, a town of France, on the fouth fide 

 of the Seine ; 3 miles S. of Rouen. 



SOTTO VocK, in Italian Mufic, implies a degree of 

 piano, or foft, and fubdued voice ; which is fometimes ex- 

 prcffed by mezzo forte, and mezza voce, half piano. 



SOU, in Commerce. See Soi.. 



Sou, or So-icheou, in Geography, a town of China, of 

 3B the 



