Note 81 — Chapter I · THE MILESIAN SCHOOL
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Arist. Met. Α, 3. 983 b 21 (R. P. 10); de Caelo, Β, 13. 294 a 28 (R. P. 11). Later writers add that he gave this as an explanation of earthquakes (so Aet. iii. 15, 1); but this is probably due to a “Homeric allegorist” (Appendix, § 11), who wished to explain the epithet ἐννοσίγαιος. Cf. Diels, Dox. p. 225.