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 10*8. V.JUNE ao, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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has modern punctuation, full stops with succeeding capital, question mark, no quota- tion mark, and the French form of the figure 5. It has no ecphoneme, even at passages where my ' Cic. Opera ' (Parisiis, apud Lefevre bibliopolam, MDCCCXXIV.) has it regularly, e.g., 'Tusc.,' ii. 8, "O multa dictu

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passage. Vulg.

Sion, K| 73, 2 b. ' Histoires tragiques,' Bandel. Printed in French at Paris, by Jean de Bordeaux, 1572, Hist. Ixv. p. 192 :

Que feray ie doc ?

Ah heureuse Cleopatre, de !

Bien fortunee Sophoniste, de !

Which brings ! back to 1572.

'Ciceronis et Demosthenis Sententise' (Sion, K. 83, 1), also at Paris by Hieronym. de Mornef, brings ! and ? further back to 1567.

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