Suidas tells us that he wrote epitomes of numerous works, and that some ascribed to him the Historical Extracts (ἐκλογὴν τῶν ἱστοριῶν), which, we may therefore infer, others attributed to the elder Sopater. Photius (Bibl. Cod. 161) has preserved an abstract of this ἐκλογὴ, or, as he calls it, ἐκλογαὶ διάφοροι, from which it appears that the work contained a vast variety of facts and figments, collected from a great number of authors. A list of the writers quoted by Sopater is given by Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. x. pp. 720-722; comp. vol. ii. p. 321, vol. iii. p. 51, vol. iv. p. 250, and Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 294, ed. Westermann).
William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. In the article on Soranus, we find: "at this present time (1848)" and this date seems to reflect the dates of works cited. 1873 - probably the printing date.
