Transcriber’s notes

This e-text includes a number of phrases and passages in Greek, as well as a few special characters including œ Œ ℥ ⅔. If these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your browser’s “character set” or ‘file encoding’ is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. Transliterations are available through mouse-hover popups.

The spelling and punctuation in the original are idiosyncratic and inconsistent. A few clear typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups.

Citations have not been checked for correctness; errors that came to the transcriber’s attention are noted. Citation references do not always follow a standard format.

Modern conventions are not used for parentheses (). In particular, nested parentheses are opened many times, but closed only once, or vice versa.

The arabic numeral 1 and the roman numeral I are indistinguishable in the original. It has not always been possible to tell unambiguously which was meant.

Many footnote markers are midway between two words in the original. They have been left like that in this transcription. The markers for many footnotes giving the source of poetry quotations are at the beginning of the relevant quotation in the original. They have been moved to the end of the quotation for ease of presentation.