Pal.gr.108

isos

Isos, oxytone and paroxytone, is written with an i. These are oxytone: pistos [faithful]; cheistos; histos meaning the arrow; histos meaning the woven [web]; histos meaning the mast in a ship. Chrēstos [with eta] is the good; and the barley-meal. Skēpos is a city of Libya, or sēkos is a woman’s ornament that is scented, through the ē. Derived from cheō are kallistos [most beautiful]; beltistos [best]; hēdistos [sweetest]; cheiristos [worst]; eponeidistos [shameful]; kakistos [worst]; axiōtatos [most worthy]. Apistos: the one easily persuaded; and apistōs, the one [persuaded] with difficulty. Alternatively: achrēstos is the useful; and achrēstos is the one not even useful, [written] through the ē. Apistos is the one easily persuaded; and apistōs is the one with difficulty persuaded, through the i. And in another way: which words beginning with the chei syllable are written with an i?

chei

Cheiōn, the relief of the anointing; and cheiros, the easy to catch. Echeion is the ancient [vessel], for the pressing of the oil. Kings are anointed christoi; the God-man Word echristo [was anointed]; for because he was man, the divinity anointed him, and the humanity was anointed. Cheirophoros; cheimetlon and that which is near; cheipantos; cheiōnymos; cheitina, a proper name. In another way: which ones [are] through the

chrē

ē? These: chrēma, the thing; chrēmata, those besides the coins; chrēmatismoi; chrēmatizō meaning "I give responses," and also "I exist"; chrēsmodotein, the oracles of the gods; chrēsmologos, the one who tells the oracles of visions, through the ō; chrēsmōdō; chrēsmōdia; chrēsmōdēma; chrēsmodotō; chrēsmodotēma; chrēstēriazō; chrēstērion, the divine? oracle; euchrēsmoi; and "the right," ... the ancient Sophocles.