A.= ἐννέα, ἔνατος, but θ᾽ = 9,000: abbreviation for θάνατος (or ἀπέθανε, τέθνηκε, θανατωτέον) found in certain Ptolemaic Mss. of Hp., acc. to Gal.17(1).612, cf. Pers.4.13, Mart.7.37, Wessely Schrifttaf. zur ält.lat.Paläogr.No.8 (ii A.D.), PFay.105 iii 26 (ii A.D.), Dessau Inscr.Lat.Sel.5140, etc.; v. θῆτα.
Θθ , θῆτα , τό, indecl., ninth (later eighth) letter of the Gr. alphabet: as numeral θ᾽