A paragraphos ( grc, , , from , 'beside', and , 'to write') was a mark in

ancient Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian language, Sumerian c ...

Greek punctuation The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of severa ...

, marking a division in a text (as between speakers in a dialogue or drama) or drawing the reader's attention to another division mark, such as the

two dot punctuation Obelism is the practice of annotating manuscripts with marks set in the margins. Modern obelisms are used by editors when proofreading a manuscript or typescript. Examples are "stet" (which is Latin for "Let it stand", used in this context to me ...

mark . There are many variants of this symbol, sometimes supposed to have developed from Greek

gamma Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; ''gámma'') is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter re ...

(), the first letter of the word . It was usually placed at the beginning of a line and trailing a little way under or over the text. It was referenced by

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

, who was dismissive of its use.

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encodes multiple versions: * * *

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Writing Punctuation Ancient Greek punctuation pl:Paragraf {{AncientGreek-lang-stub

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