167, to
restrain
as well as observe the am- 3.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
12, Lael.
1, ad Fam.
xii.
6.
)
Brut. 26, 31, comp. 21, de Leg. i. 2, ad Att. xii. 5; 2. L. , a Roman eques, whom Cicero introduced
Sall. ap. Victorin. p. 57, ed. Orelli; Krause, Vitae to M. Brutus (ad Fam. xiii. 14).
et Fragm. Hist. Rom. p. 171, &c. ; Orelli, Onom. STRABO, L. VOLTEIUS, known only from
Tull. pp. 249, 250. )
coins, a specimen of which annexed. The
One of the difficulties respecting this C. Fannius obverse represents the head of Jupiter, the reverse
M. f. arises from a letter of Cicero, in which he Europa carried away on the bull" (Eckhel, vol v.
writes to Atticus to ask him under what consuls p. 345. )
C. Fannius M. f. was tribune of the plebs, adding
that he believed that it was during the censorship
of P. Africanus and L. Mummius, that is, in B. C.
142 (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 13, c. ). Pighius therefore
concluded from this passage, that the C. Fannius
M. f. who was tribune of the plebs in B. c. 142,
must have been a different person from the son-in-
law of Laelius, who was serving that year in
Spaln, as we have already seen; and he accord-
ingly supposes that there were three contemporaries
of the name of C. Fannius, namely, 1. C. Fannius,
cero as
serta. "
Coo
000120
(LVOLFSTA
COIN OF L. VOLTRIUS STRABO.
## p. 923 (#939) ############################################
STRATOCLES.
923
STRATON.
STRABO, C. PAETILIUS, C. L. , the name the assembly the most preposterous decrees (Plut.
of a freedman, which appears, with the epithet Demetr. 11, 12). When on one occasion, he pro-
CAELATOR, on an inscription, respecting the ge- posed a vote that whatever Demetrius ordered was
nuineness of which there are strong doubts. There pious towards the gods and just towards men, a
is no other mention of this artist. (Muratori, satirical remark of Demochares in reply to some
Thes, vol. i. p. Ixx. n. 6; Maffei, Art. Cr. Lapid. who said that Stratocles must be mad to propose
p. 214; Orelli, Inscr. Lat. Scl. n. 1614; R. Ro such decrees, led to a quarrel between Demochares
chette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 409. ) (P. S. ) and the partizans of Stratocles, and ultimately to
STRATEGOPUʻLUS, GREGO'RIUS. the banishment of the former (Plut. Demetr. c. 24.
(MAMMAS. )
Compare DEMOCHARES, vol. i. p. 973). It was
STRATIUS (Etpátios. ) 1. A son of Nestor to accommodate the celebration of the Eleusinian
and Anaxibia. (Hom. Od. iii. 413. )
mysteries to the convenience or caprice of Demetrius,
2. A son of Clymenus. (Paus. ix. 37. & I. ) who demanded to be initiated, that Stratocles pro-
3. Stratios, i. e. the warlike, occurs also as a posed the outrageously absurd decrce, that the people
surname of Zeus and Ares. (Strab. xiv. p. 659; should call the month Munychion Anthesterion, and
Herod. v. 119. )
(L. S. ) celebrate the smaller mysteries, and then forth with
STRA'TIUS (Etpátios). 1. An Achaean of change the name again to Boedromion and celebrate
Tritaea, was one of the deputies who met to deli- the greater mysteries (Plut. Demetr. 26). This was
berate concerning the course to be pursued at the in B. C. 302. A fragment of a speech of Stratocles
breaking out of the war between Perseus and the is quoted by Photius (Cod. ccl. 4. p. 447, a. ed. Bek-
Romans (B. c. 169). Though his sentiments were ker. ) from Agatharchides (Ruhnken. Hist. Crit.
hostile to Rome, he dissuaded his countrymen from Orat. Graec. Opusc. p. 362, &c. ).
taking any active part against the republic (Polyb. We find a Stratocles mentioned as one of the
xxviii. 6). He was one of the Achaeans after- Athenian generals at the battle of Chaeroneia, in
wards carried to Rome in B. c. 167, to await the B. c. 338. (Polyaen. Strateg. iv. 2 ; comp. Aesch.
judgment of the senate, and an embassy sent adv. Cres. c. 45. p. 74. ) Droysen (Gesch. der
thither by his countrymen in B. C. 160, had for its Nachfolger Alcaunders, p. 498) considers the gene
chief object to obtain the liberation of him and ral and the orator to be identical.
Polybius (Id. xxxii. 7). He was not, however, Cicero (Brutus, 11) mentions a Stratocles in a
set free till long after, when he returned to his connection which seems to point him out as a rhe
native country, where we find him thenceforth torician who was the author of some historical
taking a strong part in support of the Roman in- work. Ruhnken, however (l. c. p. 364) identifies
fluence, and opposing the destructive counsels of him with the Athenian orator.
Critolaus and Diaeus. (Id. xxxviii. 5, xl. 4. ) 2. A celebrated actor at Rome, mentioned by
2. A physician and friend of Eumenes II. , king Quintilian (Inst. Orat. xi. 3, § 178) and Juvenal
of Pergamus, who was sent by him to Rome in (iii. 99).
B. C.
167, to restrain as well as observe the am- 3. Some others of the same name are met with,
bitious designs of his brother Attalus. By his the notices of whom are not worth inserting
prudent admonitions he succeeded in recalling that here.
(C. P. M. ]
prince to a sense of duty. (Polyb. xxx. 2 ; Liv. STRA'TOLAS (Etparádas), a citizen of Elis,
xlv. 19. )
(E. H. B. ] and one of the leaders of the oligarchical party
STRATOCLES (ETPatokañs). 1. An Athe- there. In B. c. 364 we find him in command of
nian orator, the son of Euthydemus. He was a what Xenophon calls the Three Hundred, -per-
contemporary of Demosthenes, and a friend of the haps a body organized by the oligarchs out of their
orator Lycurgus. It was on his motion that a own class, in imitation of the Sacred Band of
decree was passed investing Lycurgus with the Thebes (see Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 136).
office of manager of the public revenue (Plut. Vit. Acting in this capacity, he fell in battle at Olym-
1. Orat. p. 852. a. ). Stratocles was a virulent op- pia against the Arcadians, who had invaded Elis,
ponent of Demosthenes, whom he charged with and were attempting to celebrate the Olympic
having accepted bribes from Harpalus (Deinarch. games under the presidency of Pisa. (Xen. Hello
in Demosth. pp. 175, a. 177, a. Compare DE- vii. 4. SS 15, 31; comp. Diod. xv. 77, 82. ) [E. E. ]
MOSTHENES, vol. i. p. 986). He was himself a STRATON (ETpátwv), historical. 1. A Tyrian,
man of very disreputable character, though a per- who was preserved by the gratitude of his slave,
suasive speaker (Demosth. adv. Pantaen. p. 944. c. ; upon occasion of a general servile insurrection, and
Plut. Demetr. c. 11. p. 893, e. ). Plutarch com-
was subsequently elected by general consent to be
pares him to Cleon, whom he seems even to have king of Tyre, a dignity which he transmitted to his
surpassed in impudence. On the occasion of the descendants. No clue is given us to the date of
defeat of Amorgus (B. C. 322) Stratocles, having this story, which is recorded only by Justin (xviii.
himself received intelligence some time before the 3), and wears a very fabulous aspect.
news became generally known, crowned himself 2. Son of Gerostratus, the king or dynast of
with a chaplet, and went through the Cerameicus, Aradus in Phoenicia at the time of its conquest by
proclaiming that the Athenians had been victori- Alexander. Gerostratus himself was absent with
ous, and bidding the people celebrate a festival of the Persian fleet, but Straton hastened after the
thanksgiving. When the real state of the case battle of Issus (B. C. 333) to meet the conqueror
became known, and the people indignantly charged on his advance into Phoenicia with the offering of
him with having deceived them, he asked, with a crown of gold, and bearing the submission of
consummate effrontery, what harm he had done, Aradus and its dependent cities. (Arrian. Anab.
for it was owing to him that they had had three ii. 13; Curt. iv. 1. $ 6. )
days' enjoyment. Stratocles especially distin. 3. King or dynast of Sidon, at the same period,
guished himself by his extravagant flattery of De was distinguished for his luxury and voluptuous-
metrius, in whose honour he brought forward in ness, in which he sought to vie with his contem-
## p. 924 (#940) ############################################
924
STRATON.
STRATON.
porary Nicocles, king of Salamis (Athen. xii. p. I writers, he appears to have held a pantheistic
531). After the conquest of Phoenicia, he was system, the specific character of which cannot
deposed by Alexander on account of the support however, be determined. He seems to have de
he had given to Dareius, and his throne conferred nied the existence of any god out of the material
upon Abdalonimus, a man in humble circumstances. universe, and to have held that every particle of
(Curt. iv. 1. $ 16; Diod. xvii. 47, erroneously re- matter has a plastic and seminal power, but with.
presents him as king of Tyre. )
out sensation or intelligence; and that life, sensa-
4. A Greek rhetorician, a friend of M. Brutus, tion, and intellect, are but forms, accidents, and
who was present with him at the fatal battle of affections of matter. Some modern writers have
Philippi (B. C. 42), and having fled with him from regarded Straton as a forerunner of Spinoza, while
the field, was induced to render him a last service others see in his system an anticipation of the
by dispatching him with his own sword. He was hypothesis of monads. He has been charged with
subsequently reconciled with Octavian, who treated atheism by Cudworth, Leibnitz, Bayle, and other
him with distinction, and to whom he rendered distinguished writers, and warmly defended by
good service at the battle of Actium. (Plut. Brut. Schlosser, in his Spicilegium historico-philosophicuir
52, 53. )
[E. H. B. ] de Stratone Lampsaceno, cognomine Physico, et athe-
STRATON (Etpátwv), literary. ). An Atheismo vulyo ei tributo, Vitemberg. 1728, 4to. A
nian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according good account of the controversy, with references to
to Suidas (s. v. ), who mentions his play entitled the writers who have noticed Straton, is given by
polvig, which is, no doubt, the same as the Poiva- Harless, in his edition of Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec.
kidns, from which a considerable fragment is quoted vol. iii. pp. 506-508 ; C. Nauwerck, de Strat.
by Athenaeus (ix. p. 382, e. ). From the frequency Lamps. Phil. Disquis. Berol. 1836, 8vo. )
with which the name of the comic poet Stratlis 3. Another Peripatetic philosopher of Alexan-
occurs corrupted into Straton, some distinguished dria. (Diog. Laërt. v. 61. )
scholars have supposed that the fragment in Athe- 4. An historian, who wrote the exploits of Phi-
naeus should be ascribed to Strattis, and that the lip and Perseus in their wars with the Romans,
comic poet Straton owes his existence solely to the and may therefore be supposed to have lived about
errors of transcribers, followed by Suidas. It has, B. C. 160. (Diog. Laërt. v. 61. )
however, been shown by Meineke, from the in- 5. Of Sardis, an epigrammatic poet, and the
ternal evidence of the fragment itself, that it could compiler of an Anthology, which was entitled.
hardly have been written by Strattis, or by any from the subject common to all the poems of which
other poet of the Old Comedy ; and therefore there it consisted, Moura talouh. It is so called in
is no reason to reject the testimony of Suidas, al- the preface of Constantinus Cephalas to this sec-
though it may be doubted whether he is strictly tion of his Anthology. It was composed partly of
correct in ascribing Straton to the Middle Comedy. epigrams compiled from the earlier anthologies of
If the Philetas mentioned in the fragment be, as Meleager and Philip, and from other sources, and
seems very probable, the celebrated poet of Cos, partly of poems written by Straton himself. Of
who flourished about Ol. 120, Straton ought rather the poets comprised in the Garland of Meleager,
to be referred to the New than to the Middle Co-Straton received thirteen into his collection, name-
medy. The first three verses of the fragment and ly, Meleager, Dioscorides, Polystratus, Antipater,
the beginning of the fourth were appropriated by Aratus, Mnasalcas, Evenus, Alcaeus of Messene,
Philemon. (Ath. xiv. p. 659, b. )
Phanias, Asclepiades, Rhianus, Callimachus, and
Another comic poet of this name is mentioned | Poseidippus: of those in the Anthology of Philip,
by Plutarch (Symp. v. 1), as a contemporary: he only took two, namely, Tullius Laureas and
(Fabric. Bibl. Graer. vol. ii. pp. 496, 497 ; Mei- Automedon ; and to these he added ten others,
neke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 426—428, namely, Flaccus, Alpheius of Mytilene, Julius Leo-
vol. iv. pp. 545-548, Editio Minor, pp. 1156– nidas, Scythinus, Numenius, Dionysius, Fronto,
1158. )
Thymocles, Glaucus, and Diocles. The whole
2. The son of Arcesilaus, of Lampsacus, was a number of poems in the collection is 258, of which
distinguished peripatetic philosopher, and the tutor 98 are by Straton himself. The work formed the
of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He succeeded Theo- last section of the Anthology of Constantine (Pla-
phrastus as head of the school in Ol. 123, B. C. 288, nudes), and is printed in Jacobs's edition of the
and, after presiding over it eighteen years, was Palatine Anthology, c. xii.
succeeded by Lycon. (Diog.
Brut. 26, 31, comp. 21, de Leg. i. 2, ad Att. xii. 5; 2. L. , a Roman eques, whom Cicero introduced
Sall. ap. Victorin. p. 57, ed. Orelli; Krause, Vitae to M. Brutus (ad Fam. xiii. 14).
et Fragm. Hist. Rom. p. 171, &c. ; Orelli, Onom. STRABO, L. VOLTEIUS, known only from
Tull. pp. 249, 250. )
coins, a specimen of which annexed. The
One of the difficulties respecting this C. Fannius obverse represents the head of Jupiter, the reverse
M. f. arises from a letter of Cicero, in which he Europa carried away on the bull" (Eckhel, vol v.
writes to Atticus to ask him under what consuls p. 345. )
C. Fannius M. f. was tribune of the plebs, adding
that he believed that it was during the censorship
of P. Africanus and L. Mummius, that is, in B. C.
142 (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 13, c. ). Pighius therefore
concluded from this passage, that the C. Fannius
M. f. who was tribune of the plebs in B. c. 142,
must have been a different person from the son-in-
law of Laelius, who was serving that year in
Spaln, as we have already seen; and he accord-
ingly supposes that there were three contemporaries
of the name of C. Fannius, namely, 1. C. Fannius,
cero as
serta. "
Coo
000120
(LVOLFSTA
COIN OF L. VOLTRIUS STRABO.
## p. 923 (#939) ############################################
STRATOCLES.
923
STRATON.
STRABO, C. PAETILIUS, C. L. , the name the assembly the most preposterous decrees (Plut.
of a freedman, which appears, with the epithet Demetr. 11, 12). When on one occasion, he pro-
CAELATOR, on an inscription, respecting the ge- posed a vote that whatever Demetrius ordered was
nuineness of which there are strong doubts. There pious towards the gods and just towards men, a
is no other mention of this artist. (Muratori, satirical remark of Demochares in reply to some
Thes, vol. i. p. Ixx. n. 6; Maffei, Art. Cr. Lapid. who said that Stratocles must be mad to propose
p. 214; Orelli, Inscr. Lat. Scl. n. 1614; R. Ro such decrees, led to a quarrel between Demochares
chette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 409. ) (P. S. ) and the partizans of Stratocles, and ultimately to
STRATEGOPUʻLUS, GREGO'RIUS. the banishment of the former (Plut. Demetr. c. 24.
(MAMMAS. )
Compare DEMOCHARES, vol. i. p. 973). It was
STRATIUS (Etpátios. ) 1. A son of Nestor to accommodate the celebration of the Eleusinian
and Anaxibia. (Hom. Od. iii. 413. )
mysteries to the convenience or caprice of Demetrius,
2. A son of Clymenus. (Paus. ix. 37. & I. ) who demanded to be initiated, that Stratocles pro-
3. Stratios, i. e. the warlike, occurs also as a posed the outrageously absurd decrce, that the people
surname of Zeus and Ares. (Strab. xiv. p. 659; should call the month Munychion Anthesterion, and
Herod. v. 119. )
(L. S. ) celebrate the smaller mysteries, and then forth with
STRA'TIUS (Etpátios). 1. An Achaean of change the name again to Boedromion and celebrate
Tritaea, was one of the deputies who met to deli- the greater mysteries (Plut. Demetr. 26). This was
berate concerning the course to be pursued at the in B. C. 302. A fragment of a speech of Stratocles
breaking out of the war between Perseus and the is quoted by Photius (Cod. ccl. 4. p. 447, a. ed. Bek-
Romans (B. c. 169). Though his sentiments were ker. ) from Agatharchides (Ruhnken. Hist. Crit.
hostile to Rome, he dissuaded his countrymen from Orat. Graec. Opusc. p. 362, &c. ).
taking any active part against the republic (Polyb. We find a Stratocles mentioned as one of the
xxviii. 6). He was one of the Achaeans after- Athenian generals at the battle of Chaeroneia, in
wards carried to Rome in B. c. 167, to await the B. c. 338. (Polyaen. Strateg. iv. 2 ; comp. Aesch.
judgment of the senate, and an embassy sent adv. Cres. c. 45. p. 74. ) Droysen (Gesch. der
thither by his countrymen in B. C. 160, had for its Nachfolger Alcaunders, p. 498) considers the gene
chief object to obtain the liberation of him and ral and the orator to be identical.
Polybius (Id. xxxii. 7). He was not, however, Cicero (Brutus, 11) mentions a Stratocles in a
set free till long after, when he returned to his connection which seems to point him out as a rhe
native country, where we find him thenceforth torician who was the author of some historical
taking a strong part in support of the Roman in- work. Ruhnken, however (l. c. p. 364) identifies
fluence, and opposing the destructive counsels of him with the Athenian orator.
Critolaus and Diaeus. (Id. xxxviii. 5, xl. 4. ) 2. A celebrated actor at Rome, mentioned by
2. A physician and friend of Eumenes II. , king Quintilian (Inst. Orat. xi. 3, § 178) and Juvenal
of Pergamus, who was sent by him to Rome in (iii. 99).
B. C.
167, to restrain as well as observe the am- 3. Some others of the same name are met with,
bitious designs of his brother Attalus. By his the notices of whom are not worth inserting
prudent admonitions he succeeded in recalling that here.
(C. P. M. ]
prince to a sense of duty. (Polyb. xxx. 2 ; Liv. STRA'TOLAS (Etparádas), a citizen of Elis,
xlv. 19. )
(E. H. B. ] and one of the leaders of the oligarchical party
STRATOCLES (ETPatokañs). 1. An Athe- there. In B. c. 364 we find him in command of
nian orator, the son of Euthydemus. He was a what Xenophon calls the Three Hundred, -per-
contemporary of Demosthenes, and a friend of the haps a body organized by the oligarchs out of their
orator Lycurgus. It was on his motion that a own class, in imitation of the Sacred Band of
decree was passed investing Lycurgus with the Thebes (see Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 136).
office of manager of the public revenue (Plut. Vit. Acting in this capacity, he fell in battle at Olym-
1. Orat. p. 852. a. ). Stratocles was a virulent op- pia against the Arcadians, who had invaded Elis,
ponent of Demosthenes, whom he charged with and were attempting to celebrate the Olympic
having accepted bribes from Harpalus (Deinarch. games under the presidency of Pisa. (Xen. Hello
in Demosth. pp. 175, a. 177, a. Compare DE- vii. 4. SS 15, 31; comp. Diod. xv. 77, 82. ) [E. E. ]
MOSTHENES, vol. i. p. 986). He was himself a STRATON (ETpátwv), historical. 1. A Tyrian,
man of very disreputable character, though a per- who was preserved by the gratitude of his slave,
suasive speaker (Demosth. adv. Pantaen. p. 944. c. ; upon occasion of a general servile insurrection, and
Plut. Demetr. c. 11. p. 893, e. ). Plutarch com-
was subsequently elected by general consent to be
pares him to Cleon, whom he seems even to have king of Tyre, a dignity which he transmitted to his
surpassed in impudence. On the occasion of the descendants. No clue is given us to the date of
defeat of Amorgus (B. C. 322) Stratocles, having this story, which is recorded only by Justin (xviii.
himself received intelligence some time before the 3), and wears a very fabulous aspect.
news became generally known, crowned himself 2. Son of Gerostratus, the king or dynast of
with a chaplet, and went through the Cerameicus, Aradus in Phoenicia at the time of its conquest by
proclaiming that the Athenians had been victori- Alexander. Gerostratus himself was absent with
ous, and bidding the people celebrate a festival of the Persian fleet, but Straton hastened after the
thanksgiving. When the real state of the case battle of Issus (B. C. 333) to meet the conqueror
became known, and the people indignantly charged on his advance into Phoenicia with the offering of
him with having deceived them, he asked, with a crown of gold, and bearing the submission of
consummate effrontery, what harm he had done, Aradus and its dependent cities. (Arrian. Anab.
for it was owing to him that they had had three ii. 13; Curt. iv. 1. $ 6. )
days' enjoyment. Stratocles especially distin. 3. King or dynast of Sidon, at the same period,
guished himself by his extravagant flattery of De was distinguished for his luxury and voluptuous-
metrius, in whose honour he brought forward in ness, in which he sought to vie with his contem-
## p. 924 (#940) ############################################
924
STRATON.
STRATON.
porary Nicocles, king of Salamis (Athen. xii. p. I writers, he appears to have held a pantheistic
531). After the conquest of Phoenicia, he was system, the specific character of which cannot
deposed by Alexander on account of the support however, be determined. He seems to have de
he had given to Dareius, and his throne conferred nied the existence of any god out of the material
upon Abdalonimus, a man in humble circumstances. universe, and to have held that every particle of
(Curt. iv. 1. $ 16; Diod. xvii. 47, erroneously re- matter has a plastic and seminal power, but with.
presents him as king of Tyre. )
out sensation or intelligence; and that life, sensa-
4. A Greek rhetorician, a friend of M. Brutus, tion, and intellect, are but forms, accidents, and
who was present with him at the fatal battle of affections of matter. Some modern writers have
Philippi (B. C. 42), and having fled with him from regarded Straton as a forerunner of Spinoza, while
the field, was induced to render him a last service others see in his system an anticipation of the
by dispatching him with his own sword. He was hypothesis of monads. He has been charged with
subsequently reconciled with Octavian, who treated atheism by Cudworth, Leibnitz, Bayle, and other
him with distinction, and to whom he rendered distinguished writers, and warmly defended by
good service at the battle of Actium. (Plut. Brut. Schlosser, in his Spicilegium historico-philosophicuir
52, 53. )
[E. H. B. ] de Stratone Lampsaceno, cognomine Physico, et athe-
STRATON (Etpátwv), literary. ). An Atheismo vulyo ei tributo, Vitemberg. 1728, 4to. A
nian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according good account of the controversy, with references to
to Suidas (s. v. ), who mentions his play entitled the writers who have noticed Straton, is given by
polvig, which is, no doubt, the same as the Poiva- Harless, in his edition of Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec.
kidns, from which a considerable fragment is quoted vol. iii. pp. 506-508 ; C. Nauwerck, de Strat.
by Athenaeus (ix. p. 382, e. ). From the frequency Lamps. Phil. Disquis. Berol. 1836, 8vo. )
with which the name of the comic poet Stratlis 3. Another Peripatetic philosopher of Alexan-
occurs corrupted into Straton, some distinguished dria. (Diog. Laërt. v. 61. )
scholars have supposed that the fragment in Athe- 4. An historian, who wrote the exploits of Phi-
naeus should be ascribed to Strattis, and that the lip and Perseus in their wars with the Romans,
comic poet Straton owes his existence solely to the and may therefore be supposed to have lived about
errors of transcribers, followed by Suidas. It has, B. C. 160. (Diog. Laërt. v. 61. )
however, been shown by Meineke, from the in- 5. Of Sardis, an epigrammatic poet, and the
ternal evidence of the fragment itself, that it could compiler of an Anthology, which was entitled.
hardly have been written by Strattis, or by any from the subject common to all the poems of which
other poet of the Old Comedy ; and therefore there it consisted, Moura talouh. It is so called in
is no reason to reject the testimony of Suidas, al- the preface of Constantinus Cephalas to this sec-
though it may be doubted whether he is strictly tion of his Anthology. It was composed partly of
correct in ascribing Straton to the Middle Comedy. epigrams compiled from the earlier anthologies of
If the Philetas mentioned in the fragment be, as Meleager and Philip, and from other sources, and
seems very probable, the celebrated poet of Cos, partly of poems written by Straton himself. Of
who flourished about Ol. 120, Straton ought rather the poets comprised in the Garland of Meleager,
to be referred to the New than to the Middle Co-Straton received thirteen into his collection, name-
medy. The first three verses of the fragment and ly, Meleager, Dioscorides, Polystratus, Antipater,
the beginning of the fourth were appropriated by Aratus, Mnasalcas, Evenus, Alcaeus of Messene,
Philemon. (Ath. xiv. p. 659, b. )
Phanias, Asclepiades, Rhianus, Callimachus, and
Another comic poet of this name is mentioned | Poseidippus: of those in the Anthology of Philip,
by Plutarch (Symp. v. 1), as a contemporary: he only took two, namely, Tullius Laureas and
(Fabric. Bibl. Graer. vol. ii. pp. 496, 497 ; Mei- Automedon ; and to these he added ten others,
neke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 426—428, namely, Flaccus, Alpheius of Mytilene, Julius Leo-
vol. iv. pp. 545-548, Editio Minor, pp. 1156– nidas, Scythinus, Numenius, Dionysius, Fronto,
1158. )
Thymocles, Glaucus, and Diocles. The whole
2. The son of Arcesilaus, of Lampsacus, was a number of poems in the collection is 258, of which
distinguished peripatetic philosopher, and the tutor 98 are by Straton himself. The work formed the
of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He succeeded Theo- last section of the Anthology of Constantine (Pla-
phrastus as head of the school in Ol. 123, B. C. 288, nudes), and is printed in Jacobs's edition of the
and, after presiding over it eighteen years, was Palatine Anthology, c. xii.
succeeded by Lycon. (Diog.
