This text uses characters thatrequire UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, including accented Greek and anumber of letters used in Sanskrittransliteration:
| œ † | oe ligature, dagger |
θεός, Ζεύς, ἐπίῤῥημα | Greek |
| ś Ś | s with “acute” accent |
| ṭ ḍ ṇ ṛ ḷ ṃ ḥ Ṛ | letters with under-dots |
| ấ î́ û́ ṛ́ | letters with multiple diacritics, especially vowels with bothacute and circumflex |
| ā ē ī ō ū | vowel with macron or “long” mark The book generally used circumflex accents to represent longvowels. Anomalies are individually noted. |
| ă ĕ ĭ ŭ Ĭ | vowel with breve or “short” mark |
| ů | u with small o, used in one Middle High Germanpassage |
| ȩ | e with cedilla, used in this e-text to represent anunavailable Old Norse letter |
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In the combined forms ấ ế û́ ṛ́ the acute accent may display after(to the right of) the main letter; this by itself is not a problem. Thetext also contains the single Hebrew word גְּרֵיים, and one brief passage uses Devanagari letters:
क (k)
च (c, the voiceless palatal)
ज (j, the voiced palatal)
श (ś)
These may be ignored if everything else displays as intended.
All Greek words and word elements include mouse-hover transliterations. It is assumed thatyou and your computer can deal with single Greek letters. A fewSanskrit and Hebrew letters are similarly transliterated. These areextemely rare; the transliterations should appear even if your computercannot display the characters themselves.
The chapters numbered VI–IX in the Contents are calledVII–X in the body text; there is no Chapter VI. Tags in the formA or text, referring to the “Notes” at the end of some chapters,were added by the transcriber.