A female name in the Macedonian royal family of the C5/4 BCE, which after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great became the name of seven Ptolemaic queens. (For four of them, including the seventh and most famous (d. 30 BCE), see OCD(4) 332-3.)
See also delta 981, delta 1206, epsilon 1830, epsilon 2395, iota 399, iota 761, theta 152, kappa 231, kappa 1083, kappa 1575, kappa 1634, kappa 2147.