As a result no doubt of the unsettled state of the alphabet in the fifth century, a confusion in the use of ε and η, and ο and ω respectively, often arises, and we find Ἀλκιμάχως κάλως for Ἀλκίμαχος καλός,
for Κυμοδόκη,
for Θέτις, and similar forms.[[2221]] The diphthong ει is sometimes rendered by ΕΙ, sometimes by Ε, as in
for καλὴ δοκεῖς; αι and ει are also rendered by Ε, as in the name
for Ἀλκμαίων and
