Transcriber's Notes

Any changes made to the text to correct typographical errors are listedat the end of the book.

The author makes extensive use of diacritics such as macron, breveand grave accent to indicate stress, length etc. In the original,these symbols often float over the text to show that they apply tothe syllable, but in this e-book are morked on the first vowel of thesyllable only.

Note that rare instances of simultaneous macron and breve diacriticsover the same syllable have been retained. This may indicate that thesyllable be interpreted as long or short.

In a few cases where sidenotes refer to new topics introduced within along paragraph, an additional paragraph break has been added.

All footnotes have been renumbered [1] ... [181]. Because of the numberand the length of some footnotes, all are presented at the end of thechapter or section to which they refer.

Non-roman script (e.g. Greek) has been rendered in Unicode, with a roman transliteration available with mouse-hover.