dicolon

Noun

dicolon (plural dicolons or dicola)

1. A verse or period consisting of two cola or members.
2. The symbol ⟨:⟩, a colon with two dots.
   • The bottom and top edges of the first and second pages have disintegrated. Consequently only the dicolon at the end of v. 49 of the next line(s) (indicating that Smikrines is the speaker) and the last three letters of 52 (εγω) at the top of page 2 can clearly be read.1971, D. B. Lombard, “New Values in traditional forms - a study in Menander's 'Aspis'”, in Acta Classica, volume 14, page 126 of 123–145
   • By the end of the I century BCE dramatic papyri show systematic signalling of changes of speaker with a combined system of dicolon accompanied by paragraphos in the margin, and some authorities would trace the graphic marking of changes of speaker back to the autograph copies of an Aristophanes or...2011, Denis Feeney, “Hic finis fandi: On the Absence of Punctuation for the Endings (and Beginnings) of Speeches in Latin Poetic Texts”, in Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici...