Library of Formatting Examples:Gesperrt/14B

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by renewed efforts of force. But even if the necessities of the case
bad been less imperative, he would have been able to overbear all
opposition of his own countrymen through the numerous mercenary
strangers, now in Phokis and present at the assembly under the
name of allies.[1] In fact, so irresistible was his ascendency by
means of this large paid force under his command, that both Demosthenes
and Æschines[2] denominate him (as well as his predecessor
and his successor) not general, but despot, of the Phokians.

[Footnote 1: Diodor. xvi. 32. Οἱ δε Φωκεῖσ--ἐπανῆλθον εἰς Δελφοὺς καὶ συνελθόντες
<g>μετὰ τῶν συμμάχων</g> εἰς κοινὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἐβουλεύοντο περὶ
τοῦ πολέμου.]

[Footnote 2: Æschines, Fals. Leg. p. 286. c. 41. τῶν ἐν Φωκεῦσι τυράννων, etc.
Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 661. s. 147. Φαύλλος ὁ Φωκεὺς ἥ τις ἅλλος
δευαστὴς, etc.]

Gesperrt in Greek

The gesperrt tag is used in the second line of Footnote 1. Gesperrt is the normal method of emphasizing Greek. Italics can't be used because Greek fonts usually look slanted (which is why we don't tag Greek as italic), and boldface would require printers to buy a whole new 'bold' font, which would be too expensive. (Apparently, some printers have used boldface Greek for emphasis, so we can't say "never bold.") Underlining could be used, but nobody seems to do that.