Some writers also used a double dot symbol ⁚, that later came to be used as a full stop or to mark a change of speaker. In practice, evidence is scarce for its early usage, but it was revived later as the ano teleia, the modern Greek semicolon.
In the 3rd century BC, Aristophanes of Byzantium is alleged to have devised a punctuation system, in which the end of such a kôlon was thought to occasion a medium-length breath, and was marked by a middot
From this usage, in palaeography, a colon is a clause or group of clauses written as a line in a manuscript. 'limb, member of a body') did not refer to punctuation, but to a member or section of a complete thought or passage see also Colon (rhetoric). In Ancient Greek, in rhetoric and prosody, the term κῶλον ( kôlon, lit.