MAJUSCULE WRITING
The book-hand first took the form of majuscules, which in turn were divided into Square Capitals, Rustic Capitals, and Uncials. After this came the modified forms of Uncials caused by the admixture of minuscules.
Cadmus gives the Greeks an Alphabet.
(Tradition relates that letters were first introduced into Greece by a Phœnician named Cadmus.)
By way of explanation it may be here mentioned that, in both Greek and Latin palæography, capital letters are termed “majuscules,” while small letters are known as “minuscules.”