The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is
placed in the public domain.
Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the
book.
Blank pages have been skipped.
Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected, after
comparison with a later edition of this work. Greek text has also
been corrected after checking with this later edition and with
Perseus, when the reference was found.
Original spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been kept,
but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage
was found.
Nevetherless, no attempt has been made at normalizing proper
names. The author established at the beginning of the first
volume of this work some rules of transcription for proper names,
but neither he nor his publisher follow them consistently.