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Excerpt from Herodotus, Books VII and VIII
The basis of this edition of Books VII and VIII of Herodotus is the Teubner (kallenberg) text, the few variations being mainly restorations of mss. Readings; in matters of dialect, however, we have followed Fritsch, who established the prece dent of making the Ionic inscriptions the basis for determining Herodotean forms. The chief variations from Fritsch have been the use of so for ev and the retention of the rough breathing.
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