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• There are gaps in the chapters (Perseus has this too though)
• The chapter markers are weird
• There are multiple chapters 36s
• You can get a copy at https://archive.org/details/diosromanhistory06cassuoft/page/n6

Things get confusing after 1.13 since the chapter number drops to 6

• How does Perseus handle this? http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0593%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3Dpos%3D10
  • Perseus adds "pos=" to the division identifier
• Do other chapters do the same thing?
  • Yes
• Are there other records of this work that should how the work is supposed to be structured?

• The work is known to be choppy: http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/dio_cassius.htm
• The work is broken up like this. See code below.

<pb id="v.1.p.24" />
<milestone unit="chapter" n="13" /><milestone unit="section" n="1" /> <num>a</num> bibli/w| *di/wn <q direct="unspecified">e)n w(=| kai\ to\ sw=ma kai\ th\n
yuxh\n paraballo/menos u(pe\r u(mw=n e)kindu/neusen.</q></quote> <bibl default="NO">Bekk. Anecd. p. 165, 27.</bibl></cit>

<cit><quote>
<milestone unit="chapter" n="6" />
<milestone unit="section" n="2" /> o(/ti o( *nouma=s w)/|kei e)n kolwnw=| tw=| *kurinali/w|
w)nomasme/nw| a(/te kai\ *sabi=nos w)/n, ta\ de\ dh\ a)rxei=a
e)n th=| i(era=| o(dw=| ei)=xe, kai\ ta/s te diatriba\s plhsi/on
tou= *(estiai/ou e)poiei=to kai\ e)/stin o(/te kai\ kata\
xw/ran e)/menen.</quote> <bibl default="NO">V. 1 (p. 569).</bibl></cit>

<cit><quote>
<milestone unit="chapter" n="1" />
<milestone unit="section" n="1" /> o( de\ *di/wn fhsi\n o(/ti spoudh\n e)/xw suggra/yai
pa/nq' o(/sa toi=s *(rwmai/ois kai\ ei)rhnou=si kai\ polemou=si
a)ci/ws mnh/mhs e)pra/xqh, w(/ste mhde\n tw=n

<pb id="v.1.p.26" />