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Transcriber's Notes
Numerous errors in punctuation (mostly missing periods) have been
silently corrected. Otherwise, the somewhat eccentric use of punctuation
has been left untouched.
The following typographical errors have been corrected:
"Publiliu" (p. xi): corrected to "Publilius";
"educa-" (p.6): corrected to "education";
"isin" (p. 38): corrected to "nisi";
"vain for his recal" (p. 43): corrected to "vain for his recall";
"it it is said" (p. 94): corrected to "it is said";
"Romans to continuue (p. 117): corrected to "Romans to continue";
"Hasbrubal" (p. 190): corrected to "Hasdrubal";
"to day" (p. 241): corrected to "to-day";
"Sertorious" (p. 277): corrected to "Sertorius";
"ttifled" (p. 297): corrected to "stifled".
There are many examples of words with two spellings: one with a hyphen
and one without; this seems often to be deliberate (and often for
humorous purpose) and they have therefore been left unchanged (e.g.
dis-gusted and disgusted; Ro-man and Roman).
There is no consistency in the use of the æ ligature. For example, Both
Æmilius and Aemilius, Præneste and Praeneste are found. These
inconsistencies have been left unaltered.
Similarly the spelling Maximùs, which appears in a footnote on p. 16,
has been left unaltered, although the spelling elsewhere is Maximus.
Text in bold is indicated by =bold=.