Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and moved to precede the Index.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page [106]: A duplicate image was removed; the correct one remains, following [page 138].
Page [116]: The appearance of the transcription of Greek in the illustration will vary according to the fonts installed on your reading device.
Page [315]: “Two large triremes (galleys with two banks of oars)” was printed that way; should be either “biremes” or “three banks”.
[Footnote 22] (originally on page 143): “G. Schlumherger” should be “G. Schlumberger”.
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