01-03-2016, 02:26 PM
So here's a thing. I'm digging to find something about punctuation Romans had used.
I know that during late rome texts were solid. No spaces, no dots, nothing.
But I also know that sometimes they had used one verse for one sentence or when the new subcjet was on board, they moved one or two letters, at the begging of the sentence, opposite to our current paragraph.
Around I-II AD they also had used three dots system called Aristophanes' system. There are sources where we see text with words separeted by dot at the half high of letters.
So here is my question. Anyone knows something more about this dots system? It was useles after small letters so there must be someting more, I mean, dot between words is not something what would interrupt reading text with small letters, right? But since this system was about three dots, there must be something else.
Any ideas?
I know that during late rome texts were solid. No spaces, no dots, nothing.
But I also know that sometimes they had used one verse for one sentence or when the new subcjet was on board, they moved one or two letters, at the begging of the sentence, opposite to our current paragraph.
Around I-II AD they also had used three dots system called Aristophanes' system. There are sources where we see text with words separeted by dot at the half high of letters.
So here is my question. Anyone knows something more about this dots system? It was useles after small letters so there must be someting more, I mean, dot between words is not something what would interrupt reading text with small letters, right? But since this system was about three dots, there must be something else.
Any ideas?
Damian
