person
Sotion
also: Sotion of Alexandria
Philosopher of the school of the Sextii (early 1st century AD), one of Seneca's own teachers in his youth; remembered in the letters for urging the young Seneca toward vegetarianism.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.49.2 Sotion
Sotion of Alexandria, a philosopher of the Sextian school under whom the young Seneca studied; he persuaded the boy for a time to vegetarianism, as Seneca recalls in Letter 108.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.17 Sotion
Sotion of Alexandria, the Pythagorean and Sextian teacher under whom the young Seneca studied at Rome.