Note 330 — Chapter I

The tract On the World (περὶ κόσμου, de mundo), and the Strange Stories (περὶθαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτν, de mirabilibus auscultationibus), printed with the works of Aristotle, are held to be spurious by critics: the former, which gives a good summary of the oceanic theory of the distribution of land and water (ch. 3), is considerably later in date; the latter is a compilation made from Aristotle and other writers. Muellenhof has sought partially to analyze it in his Deutsche Alterthumskunde, i. 426, etc.