Chapter 28 A School Grammar of Attic Greek Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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a. Long and short vowels are sometimes interchanged. The corresponding forms are commonly Short α ε ι ο υ Long η or ᾱ η ῑ ω ῡ

Tragic poets in lyric parts often use Doric ᾱ where prose uses η.

b.But when vowel-lengthening results from the loss of one or more following consonants (and sometimes in other cases), α ε ο become ᾱ ει ου