File:Protos Axon (Draco).png

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English: Drawing of the Greek phrase "ΠΡΟΤΟΣ ΑΧΣΟΝ" ("first axon"), taken from from an inscription dated 408-9 BC containing Draco's law on homicide. It illustrates the early use of the Greek letter O where later orthography would prefer Ω, (classical Greek spelling "πρώτος ἄξων").
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Source Kirchhoff, Adolph (1873) Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, 1, Berlin: Georg Reimer, p. 38
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Drawing of the Greek phrase "ΠΡΟΤΟΣ ΑΧΣΟΝ" ("first axon"), as contained in a fifth century BC inscription containing Draco's law on homicide.

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