Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|        same word as eros (with an eta): ‘the sons of God saw the
 2 Intro|           where we should now use eta and zeta: for example, what
 3 Intro|            going), for the letter eta was unknown to the ancients;
 4 Intro|           the expression of size; eta of length; omicron of roundness,
 5 Intro|          adapted to express size; eta length; omicron roundness;
 6 Intro|      alpha to express size, or of eta to express length, the imitation
 7 Intro|          now iota is changed into eta and epsilon, and delta into
 8 Intro|         of inwardness, the letter eta of length, the letter omicron
 9 Text |       letter beta—the addition of eta, tau, alpha, gives no offence,
10 Text |        word ‘hero’? (Eros with an eta, in the old writing eros
11 Text |           dialectical variety for eta, and taking away iota and
12 Text |       Phaistos, and has added the eta by attraction; that is obvious
13 Text |      neoesis, and not noesis; but eta took the place of a double
14 Text |        another between the nu and eta.~HERMOGENES: That is a very
15 Text |         now they change iota into eta or epsilon, and delta into
16 Text | difficulty about them—edone is e (eta) onesis, the action which
17 Text |            going); for the letter eta was not in use among the
18 Text |    allowing for the change of the eta and the insertion of the