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could be written from right to left (as were Etruscan and early Greek) or boustrophedon, while writing from the middle Republic on was almost always left-to-right.

Classical Latin period

After the conquest of Greece in the 1st century BC, the letters Y and Z were, respectively, adopted and readopted from the Greek alphabet and placed at the end; a later attempt by the emperor Claudius

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