ABSTRACT
Introduction 6 Abbreviations and Bibliography 18 Texts and Translations
Life and writings (1-12) 28 Logic (13-16) 46 Physics (17-54) 56 Psychology, Physiology, Zoology (55-81) 132 Ethics and Politics (82-86) 178 Miscellaneous (87) 184 Appendix (App. 1-13) 184
Concordances 210 Omitted Texts 214 Index of Sources 215 Index of Passages Cited 220 Index of Names 226
This collection of the sources for Strato of Lampsacus follows the same basic principles as those of the sources for Theophrastus in FHS&G2 and for other early Peripatetics in previous volumes of RUSCH. (I follow these collections in using the term “sources” because in dealing with prose authors it is not always easy to draw a hard-and-fast line between “fragments,” in the sense of quotations, on the one hand and testimonia on the other.) In particular, the present collection is essentially confined, as far as texts printed in full are concerned, to passages where Strato is mentioned by name — a principle which is probably more important in the case of Strato than of any other Peripatetic (see below, Introduction §2).3 Related texts are grouped together under a single number (e.g. 5A and 5B); texts that name Strato but are parallel to those printed in full are listed in the upper apparatus, as are texts that do not name him but are otherwise comparable. The present collection also follows FHS&G and the previous collections in RUSCH in arranging the material by subject-matter, with separate lists of the titles attested for Strato cross-referring to the individual texts, rather than seeking to arrange the items primarily by their putative relation to the attested titles, a procedure which is obviously appropriate in the context of reconstructing lost dramatic works, for example, but less obviously so in that of philosophical doctrines.4 In the case of Strato very few of the reports in the fragments actually cite a book-title; I have considered whether to indicate after each title, even if only tentatively, the fragments that might possibly relate to it even if there is no actual evidence that
they do so; however, this is usually so uncertain that I would be reluctant to do so except perhaps in a very few cases, and it therefore seems more consistent not to do so at all.
