ABSTRACT
Among the fragments of Strato are some which suggest that he held a non-standard theory of elements, in which qualities of some kind were elemental. The few explicit testimonia in Wehrli, all probably doxographic, mention only “Hot” and “Cold”— and perhaps “Thick” — among those elemental qualities, but there are good reasons for believing that his theory promoted a wide variety of qualities to elemental status, probably including colors and flavors. Moreover, the theory reconstructed here can clarify a handful of other fragments.
