ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD

NOTE TO THE READER
THE TRADITIONAL corpus aristotelicum contains several works which were
certainly or probably not written by Aristotle. A single asterisk against the title of
a work indicates that its authenticity has been seriously doubted; a pair of asterisks
indicates that its spuriousness has never been seriously contested. These asterisks
appear both in the Table of Contents and on the title pages of the individual works
concerned.
The title page of each work contains a reference to the edition of the Greek
text against which the translation has been checked. References are by editor’s
name, series or publisher (OCT stands for Oxford Classical Texts), and place and
date of publication. In those places where the translation deviates from the chosen
text and prefers a different reading in the Greek, a footnote marks the fact and
indicates which reading is preferred; such places are rare.
The numerals printed in the outer margins key the translation to Immanuel
Bekker’s standard edition of the Greek text of Aristotle of 1831. References consist
of a page number, a column letter, and a line number. Thus “1343a” marks
column one of page 1343 of Bekker’s edition; and the following “5,” “10,” “15,”
etc. stand against lines 5, 10, 15, etc. of that column of text. Bekker references of
this type are found in most editions of Aristotle’s works, and they are used by all
scholars who write about Aristotle.