...take, the name of the letter is quite correct. Take, for example, the letter beta—the addition of eta, tau, alpha, gives no offence, and does not prev... ...er is quite correct. Take, for example, the letter beta—the addition of eta, tau, alpha, gives no offence, and does not prevent the whole name from ha... ...atylus – Plato 21 Hector and Astyanax have only one letter alike, which is tau, and yet they have the same meaning. And how little in common with th... ...ing the shaker of the earth, has been named from shaking ( seiein), and then pi and delta have been added. Pluto gives wealth (Ploutos), and his name ... ...honoe, and expresses the possession of mind: you have only to take away the tau and insert two omichrons, one between the chi and nu, and another be... ...is different; for when by the help of grammar we assign the letters alpha or beta, or any other letters to a certain name, then, if we add, or subtrac...

...e rendered by spelling out each Greek letter individually , such as {alpha beta gamma delta …}. The reader can distinguish these words by the en- clos... ...‘to revel,’ but because they wandered from village to village (kappa alpha tau alpha / kappa omega mu alpha sigma), being excluded contemptu- ously fr... ...at the Dorian word for ‘doing’ is {delta rho alpha nu}, and the Athenian, {pi rho al- pha tau tau epsilon iota nu}. This may suffice as to the number ... ...ord for ‘doing’ is {delta rho alpha nu}, and the Athenian, {pi rho al- pha tau tau epsilon iota nu}. This may suffice as to the number and nature of t... ... is capable of form- ing one significant sound,—as {alpha mu theta iota}, {pi epsi- lon rho iota}, and the like. Or, a non-significant sound, which ma... ...stand by itself at the begin- ning of a sentence, as {mu epsilon nu}, {eta tau omicron iota}, {delta epsilon}. A Noun is a composite significant sound... ... tracted when some part of it is removed. Instances of length- ening are,—{pi omicron lambda eta omicron sigma} for {pi omicron lambda epsilon omega s... ...delta omicron nu / Mu alpha rho alpha theta omega nu alpha delta epsilon / Beta alpha delta iota zeta omicron nu tau al- pha}, or, {omicron upsilon ka... ...silon kappa epsilon iota nu omicron upsilon /epsilon lambda lambda epsilon beta omicron rho omicron nu}. To employ such license at all obtrusively is,...