note petral Further pedantry: Boustrophedon is greek for "as the ox plows". When the alphabet was first borrowed from the right-to-left writing Phoenicians, there was a brief period (c. 8-700 roman bc?) during which this form of writing was actually used by Greek writers before they settled on writing left-to-right. The word was borrowed from the classicists when mechanical printers appeared.&nbsp These printers could clearly go faster if they started each line where they had ended the previous one (which, of course, is also true of oxen). &nbsp p 126195 126195