<Li> stigmḕ mésē--a punctus at midheight to mark off a clause (kōlon); and </Li> <Li> stigmḕ teleía--a high punctus to mark off a sentence (periodos). </Li> <P> In addition, the Greeks used the paragraphos (or gamma) to mark the beginning of sentences, marginal diples to mark quotations, and a koronis to indicate the end of major sections . </P> <P> The Romans (ca . 1st century b.c.) also occasionally used symbols to indicate pauses, but the Greek théseis--under the name distinctiones--prevailed by the a.d. 4th century as reported by Aelius Donatus and Isidore of Seville (7th century). Also, texts were sometimes laid out per capitula, where every sentence had its own separate line . Diples were used, but by the late period these often degenerated into comma - shaped marks . </P>

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