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Ben C Smith · 09-02-2005, 12:41 PM

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What was really going on, of course, had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with politics.

As usual....

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I'd be surprised if any given scribe felt any hesitation between swapping between them. When I was working on Jerome's Chronicle, I don't think any two of the ancient and medieval manuscripts or printed editions I looked at had the same pattern (within text) of representing numbers by numeral-letters or in full. It's an obvious way to save space, given that the manuscript texts are full of abbreviations anyway.

Hey, good point that. I would be willing to just bet that the delta is fourth, not second.

Ben.

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