Mommsen Theodor _The History Of Rome

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1、InFiveBooksbyTheodorMommsenBookIPreparedbyDavidCeponis.Preparer'sNoteThisworkcontainsmanyliteralcitationsofandreferencestoforeignwords,sounds,andalphabeticsymbolsdrawnfrommanylanguages,includingGothicandPhoenician,butchieflyLatinandGreek.ThisEnglishedition,constrain

2、edtothecharactersof7-bitASCIIcode,adoptsthefollowingorthographicconventions:1)ExceptforGreek,allliterallycitednon-Englishwordsthatdonotrefertotextscitedasacademicreferences,wordsthatinthesourcemanuscriptappearitalicized,arerenderedwithasinglepreceding,andasinglefoll

3、owingdash;thus,-xxxx-.2)Greekwords,firsttransliteratedintoRomanalphabeticequivalents,arerenderedwithaprecedingandafollowingdouble-dash;thus,--xxxx--.Notethatinsomecasestherootworditselfisacompoundformsuchasxxx-xxxx,andisrenderedas--xxx-xxx--3)Simpleunideographicrefe

4、rencestovocalicsounds,singleletters,oralphabeicdipthongs;andprefixes,suffixes,andsyllabicreferencesarerepresentedbyasingleprecedingdash;thus,-x,or-xxx.4)(EspeciallyforthecomplexdiscussionofalphabeticevolutioninCh.XIV:MeasuringAndWriting).Ideographicreferences,meanin

5、gpointerstotheformofrepresentationitselfratherthantoitscontent,arerepresentedas-"id:xxxx"-."id:"standsfor"ideograph",andindicatesthatthereadershouldformapicturebasedonthefollowing"xxxx";whichmaybeasinglesymbol,aword,oranattemptatapicturecomposedofASCIIcharacters.E.g

6、.--"id:GAMMAgamma"--indicatesanuppercaseGreekgamma-formfollowedbytheforminlowercase.Somesuchexoticparsingasthisisnecessarytoexplainalphabeticdevelopmentbecauseasinglesymbolmayhavebeenusedforanumberofsoundsinanumberoflanguages,orevenforanumberofsoundsinthesamelanguag

7、eatdifferenttimes.Thus,-"id:GAMMAgamma"mightverywellrefertoaPhoenicianconstructthatinappearanceresemblestheformthateventuallystabilizedasanuppercaseGreek"gamma"juxtaposedtooneoflowercase.Also,aconstructsuchas--"id:E"indicatesasymbolthatwithASCIIresemblesmostcloselya

8、Romanuppercase"E",but,infact,isactuallydrawnmorecrudely.5)Dr.MommsenhasgivenhisdatesintermsofRomanusage,A.U.C.;thatis,fromthefoundingofRom