The article focuses on aorist middle voice verb forms in ancient Greek built to the root öéë- found in works by Homer and Hesiod that exhibit a long vowel in the root. Topics covered include morphology of a sigmatic aorist, representation of the athematic aorist middle participle Öé.ëáìåíïò in the Mycenaean personal name pi-ra-me-no, and the connection of stems in öé.ë- with gods and goddesses.