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system invented by Aristophanes of Byzantium, where a single dot called a was placed at one of several heights to denote rhetorical divisions in speech:
* a low on the baseline to mark off a (a unit smaller than a clause)
* a at midheight to mark off a clause
* a high to mark off a sentence In addition, the Greeks used the paragraphos (or gamma) to mark the beginning of sentences,

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