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Various paragraphoi.. A paragraphos (Ancient Greek: παράγραφος, parágraphos, from para-, 'beside', and graphein, 'to write') was a mark in ancient Greek punctuation, 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 mark ⁚ (used as an obelism).
A paragraph (from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos) 'to write beside') is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. Though not required by the orthographic conventions of any language with a writing system, paragraphs are a conventional means of organizing extended segments of prose.
Liddell and Scott's Greek–English Lexicon gives the basic meaning of korōnis as "crook-beaked" from which a general meaning of "curved" is supposed to have derived. [2] Pierre Chantraine concurs and derives the word from κορώνη ( korōnē ), "crow", assigning the meaning of the epithet's use in reference to the textual symbol to the ...
Others have theorized that it is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek παράγραφος (paragraphos), [9] a catch-all term for a class of punctuation marks used by scribes with diverse shapes and intended uses. [12] The modern form of the sign, with its modern meaning, has been in use since the 15th century. [13]
Most used are the editorial coronis, the paragraphos, the forked paragraphos, the reversed forked paragraphos, the hypodiastole, the downwards ancora, the upwards ancora, and the dotted right-pointing angle, which is also known as the diple periestigmene. Loosely, all these symbols, and the act of annotation by means of them, are obelism.
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The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original παράγραφος [parágraphos], which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text. [7] As the paragraphos became more popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter Gamma ( Γ , γ ) and later into litterae ...