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The entire text, including the modern (1869) material, used long“s” (ſ). Possible or probable long-s errors are individually noted.Words shown in boldface were originally printed in blackletter(“gothic”) type. The symbol shown as (,’,) has not beenidentified.

The format of this html text reproduces the design and layout of theoriginal book as closely as possible. For readers who find it toochaotic, or whose browsers have trouble with the details, some of theintroductory material is repeated at the end of the text in simplerform.

Apparent errors in the text have generally been left unchanged.A few points are noted with mouse-hover popups; most irregularities have simply beenmarked without comment. The form ἐκατομπαθία (for ἑκατομπαθία) was usedconsistently.