Editing Digamma (section)

===Gabex or Gamex===

In one remark in the context of a biblical commentary, the 4th century scholar [[Ammonius of Alexandria (Christian philosopher)|Ammonius of Alexandria]] is reported to have mentioned that the numeral symbol for 6 was called ''gabex'' by his contemporaries.<ref>{{cite dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaxJAAAAcAAJ&q=%CE%B3%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%AD%CE%BE&pg=PA479|title=γαβέξ|encyclopedia=Thesauros tes hellenikes glosses|first1=Henri|last1=Estienne|first2=Charles Benoit|last2=Hase|year=n.d.|place=Paris|volume=2|page=479}}</ref><ref>Migne, ''Patrologia Graeca'' 85, col. 1512 B.</ref> The same reference in Ammonius has alternatively been read as ''gam(m)ex'' by some modern authors.<ref name="jannaris">{{cite journal|last=Jannaris|first=A. N.|title=The Digamma, Koppa, and Sampi as numerals in Greek|journal=The Classical Quarterly|volume=1|year=1907|pages=37–40|doi=10.1017/S0009838800004936|s2cid=171007977 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2188121|access-date=2019-09-09|archive-date=2020-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003051931/https://zenodo.org/record/2188121|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Novum Testamentum graece|volume=1|first=Constantin|last=von Tischendorf|page=679|year=1859|place=Leipzig}}</ref> Ammonius as well as later theologians<ref>{{cite journal|first=Sebastian|last=Bartina|title=Ignotum episemon gabex|journal=Verbum Domini|volume=36|year=1958|pages=16–37}}</ref> discuss the symbol in the context of explaining the apparent contradiction and variant readings between the gospels in assigning the death of Jesus either to the "third hour" or "sixth hour", arguing that the one numeral symbol could easily have been substituted for the other through a scribal error.