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ε Ε, ε, fifth letter of the Gr. alphabet: as numeral εʹ = πέντε and πέμπτος, but ͵ε 5000. The ancients called this vowel εἶ ( as they called ο, οὖ). When in the archonship of Euclides ( B. C. 403) the Athenians adopted long e (Η η) from the Samian alphabet, the Gramm. gave to short e the name of ἒ ψιλόν, i. e. ε without the aspirate, because Η had been used for the aspirate. In Ionic, ε sometimes stood for α, βέρεθρον ἔρσην τέσσερες for βάραθρον ἄρσην τέσσαρες, and in contr. Verbs in -άω, as ὁρέω φοιτέω.

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the letter epsilon

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14381

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urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n14387

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e)/yilon

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