2010/9/19 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]>
> Clearly there does seem to be missing a Greek letter, which should > behave exactly like the Latin letter. I can't say > if this is a contamination of the Greek script by the Latin script > (the book itself is in French), or if finally the > ligature was also used in Greek books. I think that such famous > authors were knowing Greek enough to have seen the > ligature used in pure Greek alone. > All I can tell that ου is a diphthong and since it is very common people have been using the form you are mentioning. The following shows that it was something used in Greek text alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_print_1566_Aristotle.png A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, GREECE
