PS. I use the TITUS Cyberbit Basic font to display it,
cf. http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm.
Ciao,
OS
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
The sign was in a word looking like ȣρων [...] If I understand correctly,
the text also says that this sign is a diphthong which in Doric was sub-
stituted by a plain ω [...]
Therefore, I tentatively identified the word as ωυρων, and the
unknown glyph ligature as
[Sorry for my previous message: I forgot to set the encoding.]
I am trying to identify a Greek glyph found in an ancient Latin text. I have
not seen what it looks like, but it has been described to me as an 8 with
the top circle opened.
The sign was in a word looking like 8ρων (8rôn) and which,
I am trying to identify a Greek glyph found in an ancient Latin text. I have
not seen what it looks like, but it has been described to me as an 8 with
the top circle opened.
The sign was in a word looking like 8??? (8rôn) and which, according to
the text, corresponds to Latin urina. If I
At 13:38 +0200 2002-10-02, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
Therefore, I tentatively identified the word as ? (ôurôn), and the
unknown glyph ligature as an ?? ligature (ôu: omegha + upsilon).
Omicron upsilon.
Does anyone know whether such a ligature actually existed in old typography?
And was it
John Hudson scripsit:
This ligature is one of the few that survived the extended period of
ligature-rich cursive Greek typography that began in the late 15th century
and withered in the mid-18th century.
And (uniquely for a Greek ligature?) was copied into the Latin alphabet,
and is now in
Marco Cimarosti:
The sign was in a word looking like 8ρων (8rôn) and which, according to
the text, corresponds to Latin urina. If I understand correctly, the text
also says that this sign is a diphthong which in Doric was substituted by a
plain ω (omega): Nam olem a Graecis per 8 diphthongum
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