The Burial Customs of the Ancient GreeksGraves, Frank Pierrepont
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The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Burial -- Greece; Greece -- Antiquities
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=.
The punctuation in the table of contents has been regularized.
The positioning of footnote anchors has been regularized to precede
adjacent punctuation.
The punctuation in the footnotes has been regularized.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original unless
noted below.
Page 5, comma added after “London” (“London, 1800”).
Page 5, comma changed to period after “1882” (“Freiburg, 1882.”).
Page 5, superfluous period removed in “La Cité Antique.”
Page 6, “d Athénes” changed to “d’Athénes” (“d’Athénes et de Rome”).
Page 8, “varities” changed to “varieties” (“The two varieties”).
Page 12, double quotation mark added after “perform the customary
duties.”
Page 15, superfluous quotation mark removed after “says Thucydides,”
Page 28, missing footnote anchor inserted after “twenty inches and more.”
Page 31, period added after “near the figures.”
Page 31, “uniformily” changed to “uniformly” (“the lecyths are not
uniformly white”).
Page 37, comma added after “lacerating of the cheeks.”
Page 38, “convential” changed to “conventional” (“conventional sign of
mourning”).
page 47, superfluous quotation mark removed after “a separate tomb for
each.”
Page 48, “verifiation” changed to “verification.”
Page 56, “typefies” changed to “typifies” (“the scene represented
typifies”).
Page 63, “abont” changed to “about” (“about the beginning of the
fourth”).
Page 63, “extravagence” changed to “extravagance” (“to check funeral
extravagance”).
Page 64, “frend” changed to “friend” (“Good friend, for Jesus’ sake”).
Page 64, double quotation mark added after “he yt moves my bones.”
Page 69, missing footnote anchor inserted after “remove the burying
ground.”
Page 77, missing footnote anchor inserted after “descriptions of
religious ceremonies.”
Page 81, “mercilesly” changed to “mercilessly” (“so mercilessly reduced
their allies”).
Page 81, “attibutes” changed to “attributes” (“attributes to the herald
before the battle”).
Page 85, footnote anchor following “let it grow long” regularized.
Note 42, “DeLuctu” changed to “De Luctu.”
Note 44, “Etude” changed to “Étude.”
Note 93, “Blumner” changed to “Blümner.”
Note 111, “liad” changed to “Iliad.”
Note 297, “Eschy” changed to “Aeschy.”
Note 325, “Plnt.” changed to “Plut.”
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