Sotion compiled Scattered paradoxes on rivers, springs, and lakes. The opening entries are a Theban spring at Potniae that drives horses mad (Isigonus), a Clazomenian spring that dyes wool, an Indian spring that throws swimmers ashore as from a machine (Ctesias), a Cretan channel you cross dry in rain, a Persian oil-spring that appeared to Alexander, a Cilician pool that revives drowned birds and beasts. Later chapters run Arcadian, Italian, and Lydian water-miracles, including the Clitor spring that makes wine hateful, with its epigram of Melampus and the Proetids.
The text is printed in Westermann's Greek Writers on Marvels (1839), pp. 183–191. Sotion is dated to the first century CE.
The page is that paradoxographical hydrology, not Sotion of Alexandria the Peripatetic biographer.
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