[Footnote 4:]

The invention of Acrostics is attributed to Porphyrius Optatianus, a writer of the 4th century. But the arguments of the Comedies of Plautus are in form of acrostics, and acrostics occur in the original Hebrew of the

Book of Psalms.

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[Footnote 5:]

was

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[Footnote 6:]

known by the name of

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