A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Transcriber’s Notes │ │ │ │ │ │ Punctuation has been standardized. │ │ │ │ To facilitate usage by modern readers, most abbreviated │ │ Latin words and names have been expanded to their common │ │ non-abbreviated form. (Example: Hom. expanded to Homer; │ │ Hor. expanded to Horace.) Also, labels have been added to │ │ references for book (bk.), chapter (ch.), line (li.), and │ │ letter (ltr.) for clarity. │ │ │ │ Characters in small caps have been replaced by all caps. │ │ │ │ Non-printable characteristics have been given the following │ │ Italic text: --> _text_ │ │ bold text: --> =text=. │ │ │ │ This book was written in a period when many words had │ │ not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have │ │ multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in │ │ the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated │ │ with a Transcriber’s Note. │ │ │ │ The symbol ‘‡’ indicates the description in parenthesis has │ │ been added to an illustration. This may be needed if there │ │ is no caption or if the caption does not describe the image │ │ adequately. │ │ │ │ In the listings, the alphabetical order of topics has been │ │ corrected, but no topics have been added or removed. The │ │ letters “I” and “J”, and the letters “U” and “V”, are │ │ considered synonymous and alphabetized together by the author.│ │ │ │ Footnotes are identified in the text with a superscript │ │ number and are shown immediately below the paragraph in which │ │ they appear. │ │ │ │ Transcriber’s Notes are used when making corrections to the │ │ text or to provide additional information for the modern │ │ reader. These notes are identified by ♦♠♥♣ symbols in the │