Ζζ,ζῆτα(q.v.),τό,indecl., seventh (later sixth) letter of Gr. alphabet (cf. IG 14.2420 ): as numeralζ́
A.
= ἑπτά andἕβδομος(ς́, i.e.ϝϝαῦ, the digamma, being retained to representἕξ, ἕκτος), but z'
=
7 , 000 .
0-0. Zeta, being a double consonant (pronounced either aszdor asdzacc. 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., ἄστῠ Ζελείης
Il. 4.103
, 121 ; ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος
h.Ap. 429
, etc.: afterwds. pronounced as Engl.z, cf. ζμῆνος
PCair.Zen. 151.4
(iii B.C.),ζμύρνηςib. 9
(iii B.C.),ἀμφιζβήτησινMitteis Chr. 31 viii 6