Ligatures in Bekker

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Ligatures in Bekker

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In Bekker's Aristotle there is sometimes a ligature for οὐ sometimes not; is this just when he ran out of them or is there some rule?

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same for στ. maybe to get the lines the same length?

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I believe most of this is up to the typesetter. There are some conventions, so that I'd expect προστίθημι to not have stigma — it might even be seen as προςτίθημι — but I've never come across any reasoning behind the ligature patterns except for speed and to save parchment. I'm basing this on several readings of Thompson's Palaeography book. It wouldn't surprise me if some printers had particular habits.
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1153 b 19 has δυϛυχία.

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Lavrentivs wrote:1153 b 19 has δυϛυχία.
φεῦ. Another beautiful theory destroyed by evidence.
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