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Transcriber's note:
The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these
letters have been replaced with transliterations.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"has" corrected to "hast" (page 153)
"Thetoormon" corrected to "Theotormon" (page 234)
"woamn" corrected to "woman" (footnote 19)
"rongh" corrected to "rough" (footnote 20)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation have been retained from the original.