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δῆτα, ἀγαθός

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Typographical errors have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups. The shiftfrom “Antony” (“Life of Cicero” section) to “Antonius” (remainder of thebook) is unchanged. Date format has been regularized to “(year) B.C.”;in the original, about a quarter of the dates were in the reversed form“B.C. (year)”. A few cases of “scil,” with comma have been silentlychanged to “scil.” Four occurrences of “æ”—three of them on thesame page—have been regularized to “ae”.

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