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RECENT POSTSboustrophedon
boo-struh-FEE-dawn
noun, adjective
ancient Greek and Hittite method of writing lines in alternating directions, first left-to-right and then right-to-left, as fields are plowed by oxen
1831The Hunchback of Notre DameWhat truth have you deduced, I will not say from medicine, which is too foolish a thing, but from astrology? Cite to me the virtues of the vertical boustrophedon, the treasures of the number ziruph and those of the number zephirod!'1972Under the Green Star...the Laonese script is written boustrophedon, like Hittite: back and forth, as an ox plows a field.Labels: Lin Carter, Victor Hugo
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