  From an analysis of recent ($I=J=1$)-$\pi\pi$-phase-shift and
pseudoscalar-meson decay-constant lattice data on two distinct chiral
trajectories, where either the sum of the up, down and strange quark masses, or
the mass of the strange quark is kept fixed, we extract the light and strange
quark mass dependence of the rho meson parameters, and make predictions of
those on chiral trajectories which involve lighter masses than the physical
strange quark mass. We find that the mass of the rho meson can get as light as
$700$ MeV for strange quark mass zero at physical pion masses. While the ratio
of the couplings to the $\pi\pi$ and $K\bar{K}$ channels is equal to $\sqrt{2}$
at the SU(3) symmetric chiral trajectory.
