0-0).The ι 'subscript' of modern texts was said προσγράφεσθαι, cf. D.T. 639.14 , A.D. Pron. 87.10 , Ael.Dion. Fr. 192 (also τὸ ληιστής (disyll.). . ἔχει προσκείμενον τὸ ῑ Hdn.Gr. 2.946 ), and this mode of writing is found in Papyri, Inscrr., and some medieval Mss. (e.g. cod. A of Plato, saec. ix, which has τῶι = τῷ , etc.); the present mode is found as early as the tenth century, and came into use in the thirteenth. This ι was prob. always pronounced up to ca. 150 B.C., but thereafter dropped in pronunciation, cf. D.T. l.c.; hence called ι ἀνεκφώνητον Choerob. in Theod. 1.143 and freq. omitted in Pap. and Inscrr. (cf. Epigr. ap. Str. 14.1.41 ,= SIG 766 ), later freq. restored in writing, sts. in the wrong place (v. ῥάθυμος). From ca. 150 B.C. (at Argos from ca. 450 B.C., v. SIG 56.13 ) ει was pronounced ι and the sound is written indifferently ει or ι.