Greek for "things left lying around"or "Miscellanies") The Stromata is eight books written by Clement of Alexandria. "The Stromata will contain the truth mixed up in the dogmas of philosophy, or rather covered over and hidden, as the edible part of the nut in the shell. For, in my opinion, it is fitting that the seeds of truth be kept for the husbandmen of faith, and no others". (Book One) http//www.newadvent.org/fathers/0210.htm