ENOSIS
Sta,—Your correspondent, Mr. Pullar-Strecker, would no doubt have felt more at one with the word "Enosis," and found in its associations something rather more aperitif, had it been written Henosis. It means, quite simply, "making one," or unification: Aristotle used the verb from which it comes, and the noun is credited with at origin rather earlier than Aristotle. Mr. Gladstone, in 1878, committed himself to the adjective " henotic," which has a parallel in the French hinotique. Since the living Greeks, in conformity with immemorial practice, do not in speech give effect to the rough breathing of initial vowels, the word has been anglicised without its " h ": and enosis may,- using modern transliteration, be defined as the concept 01 the unification of Kipros with Elias.—
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