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Transcriber’s Notes

• Retained the copyright notice from the printed edition (although this book is in the public domain.)
• Silently corrected a few palpable typos.
• In the text versions only, delimited italicized text in _underscores_.
• In the Latin-1 version only, transliterated Greek words, delimited in {brackets}.