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Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Ξ ξ, , Ξ ξ, , Ξ ξ,
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Ξくしー ξくしー, ξくしーεいぷしろんῖ (q.v.), τό, indecl., fifteenth (later fourteenth) letter of most of the Eastern Greek alphabets, including the Ionic (later general Gr.) alphabet ; not used in Western Greek alphabets or in the native Attic alphabet ; in form and serial position (IG14.2420) it corresponds to the Semitic
A.samech (a form of s), but has acquired the new value ks ; as numeral ξくしー᾽ = 60, but ξくしー᾽ = 60,000.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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