Sosis
3. A Syracusan, originally a man of ignoble birth, and a brazier by trade (Liv. 26.30), was one of the conspirators who assassinated Hieronymus at Leontini, B. C. 215. [HIERONYMUS].
After that event, Sosis and Theodotus (another of the conspirators) hastened immediately to Syracuse, where they roused the people to arms, and made themselves masters of the city with the exception of the citadel, in which Andranodorus, the governor left there by Hieronymus, had fortified himself.
The next day an assembly of the people was held, in which Sosis and Theodotus were among those chosen as generals or praetors, and Andranodorus was soon after induced to surrender the citadel. (Liv. 24.21-23). Shortly after, he was appointed, together with Deinomenes, to command the army sent to the relief of Leontini, but arriving too late to save that city, which had already fallen into the power of Marcellus, they turned their arms against the traitors Hippocrates and Epicydes, who had taken refuge at
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a Campanian of high rank and distinguished bravery in the second Punic war.
He fought with Claudius Asellus in single combat in B. C. 215, and put an end to his own life on the capture of Capua by the Romans in B. C. 211. (Liv. 23.8, 46, 47, 26.15; comp. Cic. in Pis. 11.
is to the Syrian monarch, whom lie immediately joined with the forces under his command. Nicolaus however prevented his design from taking full effect, and retained a part of the Syrian provinces under the allegiance of Egypt. (Plb. 5.40, 46, 61, 62.) From this time Theodotus enjoyed a high place in the favour of the Syrian king.
In the campaign of B. C. 217 we find him commanding a body of 10,000 select troops, and just before the battle of Raphia he gave a singular proof of daring by penetrating with only two companions into the heart of the Egyptian camp, in order to assassinate Ptolemy himself. Mistaking the king's tent, he slew his physician instead, but effected his escape in safety, and returned to the Syrian camp. (Id. 5.66, 79, 81.) Again in B. C. 215 we find him exhibiting equal audacity in supporting the daring project of Lagoras to scale the walls of the city of Sardes, the success of which seems to have been in great measure owing to his skill and ability. (Id. 7.16-18.)
