Re: [HM] Question for Greek scholars

Gordon Fisher (gfisher@shentel.net)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 09:20:05

I should let Antreas Hatzipolakis answer this one (I know your name now,
Antreas), but briefly, I take it that the difference between Diophantos
and Diophantus is one between transliteration of Greek, where 'o' comes
from an omicron, and the customary Latin form of the name. Both are,
I think, nominative case, so I guess one can say the difference is
alphabetical rather than grammatical. I don't recall having ever seen
Diophantes, which just looks like a wrong spelling to me.

Gordon Fisher gfisher@shentel.net

At 01:18 PM 8/9/99 +0800, Phill Schultz wrote:

> Is there a grammatical reason for the variant spellings of the name
> Diophant-ES, -OS, -US ?
>