...j that both by their Infcriptions and Medals it appears they wrote gasps^/ec, that is, alternately from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, which was the rnoft antient manner of writing among the Greeks. Paufanias * com* Lib. 5. 14 The Prefent...

...faftens it to the oppofite Side. She frequently repeats thefe Motions, in order to conduft the Thread from the? Left to the Right, and from the Right to the Left. When this fecond Band, which fuftains the Animal above the middle of her Body, has been • fufficiently...

...the characters engraven on the four fides ; but thofe of the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Irifh were thin oblong pieces, on which the characters were...of the furrows of the plough ; the Irifh called it cionn fa eite, or the head of the ridge, and cor fa chafan, or the reapers path (/). The Hibernian...

...the characters engraven on the four fides ; but thofe of the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Irifh were thin oblong pieces, on which the characters were...MSS. This method of writing was called by the Greeks boujlrophedon or the plowed' ridges, as it refembled the courfe of the furrows of the plough ; the...

...Greeks called bouftrophedon 5 that is, the lines turn on the marble, as oxen turn in plowing, froin the left to the right, and from the right to the left, alternately. The retrograde order of the letters is a relic of the oriental way cf •writing. This infcription...

...donations were common, and we shall have occasion to mention several. The lines in both inscriptions range from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, alternately. This mode of disposition was called Boustrophtdon, the lines turning on the marble as oxen do in ploughing....

...pnndiml, having been obliged during the whole of the battle to march with their arms on their shoulders, from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, without firing a single musket. " Here 1 cannot help suspending these details, to call your attention...

...in drawing lines in various directions. The mother now draws straight lines upwards and downwards, from the left to the right, and from the right to the left : in an oblique direction to the right, to the left, &c. asking the children, after drawing each line,...

...through between the arms ; the hands push off, and the descent is made on the right side of the horse. a. from the left to the right, and from the right to the left side of the horse, over the saddle, over the croup, over the neck. IV. Eleventh vault from the side...

...were common, and we shall have occasion to mention several. " The lines in both inscriptions range from the left to the right, and from the right to the left alternately. This mode of disposition was called boustrophedon, the lines turning on the marble as oxen do in ploughing"."...