MARKS OF PUNCTUATION
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Greek has four marks of punctuation. The comma and period have the same forms as in English. For the colon and semicolon Greek has only one sign, a point above the line (.):
and they gladly obeyed; for they trusted himοἱ δὲ ἡδέως ἐπείθοντο· ἐπίστευον γὰρ αὐτῷ
(X.
A. 1.2.2)
. The mark of interrogation (;) is the
same as our semicolon: πῶς γὰρ οὔ;
for why not?
Herbert Weir Smyth.
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