Strato of Sardis

Strato, usually called Strato of Sardis, is the poet whose name gives its title to Book XII of the Greek Anthology, the Musa Puerilis, a collection of epigrams on the love of boys. In his introduction to that book Paton judges that Strato lived probably in the reign of Hadrian, and that it was a Byzantine compiler, perhaps Cephalas, who inserted into the book the many poems of Meleager and other earlier poets.

This archive carries the 85 epigrams that Paton's headings give to Strato in the fourth volume of his prose translation (Book XI: 19, 21, 117; Book XII: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 241, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 258). Only the English renderings are included; the epigrams that Paton turned into Latin are left out.