Organization
The lexicon is arranged alphabetically with some slight deviations (from common vowel order and place in the Greek alphabet and including the homophonous diphthongs). According to a system (formerly common in many languages) called antistoichia (ἀντιστοιχία); namely the letters follow phonetically, in order of sound (of course in the pronunciation of the tenth century, which is similar to that of Modern Greek). So alpha-iota comes after epsilon and the latter after delta; eta and iota come together after epsilon-iota and the latter after zeta; omega after omicron and the latter after xi; finally upsilon after omicron-iota and the latter after tau. The system is not difficult to learn and remember, but some editors—for example, Immanuel Bekker -- rearranged the Suda alphabetically.
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