Tricks of the Trade

In working on my Trojan war story, I've got the phrase ὡς δ’ ἤκουσε ἕθεν (and when she heard of it) which can be written in a couple of ways. The normal way would be to contract ἤκουσε ἕθεν to ἤκουσ’ ἕθεν. But in Aeolian Greek, the genitive object would be ϝέθεν with the digamma. And even when the digamma disappears from writing, its pronunciation can still be indicated by writing the phrase as ἤκουσε έθεν.

Tricks of the trade in a 3,000 year old language.