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digamma

ancient Greek letter

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discovery by Bentley

In Richard Bentley
…some Greek dialects by the digamma, a letter not used in the modern Greek alphabet) was present in certain Homeric Greek words, though not represented by any letter when the words were written.
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indicator in dating Homeric Epics

In Homer: Modern inferences
…the disappearance of the semivowel digamma (a letter formerly existing in the Greek alphabet) are the most significant indications of this. At the other end of the time scale the development in the poems of a true definite article, for instance, represents an earlier phase than is exemplified in the…
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