Ζζ

A. = ἑπτά and ἕβδομος(ς/, i.e. vvαῦ, the digamma, being retained to represent ἕξ, ἕκτος), but z' = 7,000.

0-0. Zeta, being a double consonant (pronounced either as zd or as dz acc. to dialect and date), made a short vowel at the end of the foregoing syllable long by position; exc. before pr. names, which could not otherwise come into the hexam., ἄστυ Ζελείης Il. 4.103, 121; ὑλήεσσα Ζάκυνθος h.Ap. 429, etc.: afterwds. pronounced as Engl. z, cf. ζμῆνος PCair.Zen. 151.4 (iii B.C.), ζμύρνης ib.9 (iii B.C.), ἀμφιζβήτησιν Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 6 (ii B.C.), cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 187; sts. σζ was written, ἐνδέσζμους IG 22.1672.308 (iv B.C.), θυσιάσζειν IG 3.73.