Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" / Volume 4, Part 4

by Various

or

. The form

is found in the earliest inscriptions of Crete, Attica, Naxos and some other of the Ionic islands. In Argolis and Euboea especially a form with legs of unequal length is found

. From this it is easy to pass to the most widely spread Greek form, the ordinary

. In Corinth, however, and its colony Corcyra, in Ozolian Locris and Elis, a form