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The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude ...
Eta with acute and smooth breathing. Archaic letter denoting the absence of /h/ prior to the vowel, with a high pitch on a short vowel or rising pitch on a long vowel. Ἢἢ. Eta with grave and smooth breathing. Archaic letter denoting the absence of /h/ prior to the vowel, with a normal or low pitch. Ἦἦ.
Eta (/ ˈ iː t ə, ˈ eɪ t ə / EE-tə, AY-tə; [1] uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ancient Greek: ἦτα ē̂ta or Greek: ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, .
Eventually, a seventh vowel letter for the long /ɔː/ (Ω, omega) was introduced. Greek also introduced three new consonant letters for its aspirated plosive sounds and consonant clusters: Φ for /pʰ/, Χ for /kʰ/ and Ψ for /ps/. In western Greek variants, Χ was instead used for /ks/ and Ψ for /kʰ/. The origin of these letters is a ...
The Epistles (Greek: Ἐπιστολαί; Latin: Epistolae[1]) of Plato are a series of thirteen letters traditionally included in the Platonic corpus. With the exception of the Seventh Letter, they are generally considered to be forgeries; many scholars even reject the seventh. They were "generally accepted as genuine until modern times"; [2 ...
G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide. Its name in English is gee (pronounced / ˈdʒiː /), plural gees. [1] The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the single-storey (sometimes "opentail") and the double ...
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic zāy ز , Aramaic zain 𐡆, Hebrew zayīn ז , Phoenician zayn 𐤆, and Syriac zayn ܙ. It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
The letter s is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant after t and n . [7] It is the most common letter for the first letter of a word in the English language. [8] [9]