Strato

" Strato, in his work On Discoveries, attaches the saying to Sodamus of Tegea;

Him Theophrastus succeeds, him Strato, him Lyco, then Critolaus, then Diodorus.

Scamon of Mitylene, then, and Theophrastus of Eresus, and Cydippus of Mantinea, and besides Antiphanes and Aristodemus and Aristotle, and besides these Philostephanus, and Strato the Peripatetic too, in his works On Discoveries, related these things.

for they too maintain the unity of the soul, which, diffused through the whole body and everywhere itself, like breath in a pipe through its holes, so flashes forth through the organs of sense in various ways — not so much cut up as dispensed.

nor yet about the base of the brain, as Herophilus holds, nor in the little membranes, as Strato and Erasistratus, nor in the middle space of the eyebrows, as Strato the Natural Philosopher, nor in the whole breastplate of the chest, as Epicurus — but where both the Egyptians reported it, and those who were held to be commentators on divine things, as in that verse of Orpheus or Empedocles:

For the rest, Epicharmus, with Philochorus the Athenian, even raised dreams to the highest summit among the kinds of divination.

For Strato, his pupil, although he was of keen genius, must yet be set entirely apart from that school;

behold, there comes at you from the flank Strato of Lampsacus, who would grant to that god of yours an exemption — a great gift indeed;

First, the successor of Theophrastus, Strato, chose to be a natural philosopher;

Nor is his pupil Strato — he who is called the natural philosopher — to be listened to, who holds that all divine power resides in nature, which has the causes of generating, increasing, and diminishing, but is without all sensation and shape.

In addition to these, written affidavits were submitted by Euphiletus, son of Damotimus, of Aphidnae, Hippias, son of Timoxenus, of Thymaetadae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Archenomides, son of Strato, of Thria.

This Strato, acting as arbitrator, when the appointed day arrived and all the legal delays had been exhausted—counter-pleas, demurrers, and the rest of them—and there was not a trick left, at first begged me to abandon the arbitration, and then to postpone it till the next day, and at the last, as I continued to refuse and Meidias did not appear in court, and it was getting late, he gave his decision against him.

In that action—I mean the one in which I obtained a verdict against him—the arbitrator assigned to me was Strato of Phalerum, a man of small means and no experience, but in other respects quite a good fellow;

he denounces Strato in his absence and in the absence of witnesses, and gets him struck off the roll of arbitrators and disfranchised.

as Thales water, Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the heavenly bodies, Strato heaven and earth, Zeno air and aether, Plato the stars (which kind of gods he calls fiery) — when, considering of the world its greatness and force and power and honour and beauty, the resource, the constancy, the law of the several elements, which conspire to the begetting, nourishing, completing, and re …