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ΠΕΡΙ ΚΑΚΙΩΝ Ά

About vices - part A



Interestingly, as written, it is ΚΑΚΙωΝ not ΚΑΚΙΩΝ.


Originally there was no minuscule/majuscule (uppercase/lowercase) distinction in Greek writing (or Latin for that matter). They did have handwritten forms designed to be written faster, which is what the ω is in this case. Of course, those handwritten forms evolved often evolved into the forms we think of as lowercase forms today.




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