Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon translates to mean the way oxen turn back and forth over a field when they plough.

2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

• Boustrophedon is out of the question since rotnem is found on both lines 2 and 5.

Novilara Stele remains a mystery 2009

Worst line: An e-mail message from a character who works for a college, whom Ramble is helping with her English: Boustrophedon is when the lines of the inscription go left to right, right to left retrograde means the characters being r to l too as in a mirror, left to right etc.

2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

“Boustrophedon” meant, literally, the passage of an ox plowing a field, back and forth.

Deeper Jeff Long 2007

“Boustrophedon” meant, literally, the passage of an ox plowing a field, back and forth.

Deeper Jeff Long 2007

It is written in the most ancient Greek characters, and in the Boustrophedon manner.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

"Beta is for Boustrophedon" brings quite a lot of bull; for instance: "The last aurochs on record died an elderly cow [!] in Poland in 1627."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981

Efq; a native of England, claims the merit of firft explaining them, having found out that they are written in the manner well known, to the Grecian antiquary, by the name of Boustrophedon.

Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ... 1789