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Thanks for all your responses. I feel like a hamster on a treadmill - running faster and faster but getting nowhere.
Doitsu #11 has shown that there is a difference between what a French printer did and what an English printer did.
I've decided to do as best I can what Hugo or his English printers did, rather than obsess over what the inscription on the wall (carved in ancient Greek) would have looked like.
I'll use Ά for the first Alpha, and Á for the second Alpha. As Harry indicated few modern readers will know what the inscription would have looked like. And I think fewer still will care.
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