Temple.
_Sotades_ (Vol. viii., p. 520.).--Your correspondent CHARLES REED says that
Sotades was a Roman poet 250 B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, "Roma
tibi subito," &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or, according
to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith's
_Dictionary of Biography_, Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a
few fragments of his poems, but none of them are palindromical. The
authority for his having written so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86.
2.:
"Nec retro lego Sotaden cinædum."