obelus

• “Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the captives, of which Philokles was the author.] [Footnote 149: Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose favour they hoped to gain.] [Footnote 150: A spit is called obelus in Greek.] [Footnote 151: Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had commanded during the war.”

  Plutarch's Lives, Volume II

• “In the Latin text, the start and end of passages which are deeply corrupt and therefore difficult to correct are indicated by an asterisk, instead of the usual dagger (obelus).”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “_ -- What is the origin of the asterisk, obelus, &c., used for references to notes?”

  Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

• “Hexapla, the obelus was prefixed to words or lines which were wanting in the Hebrew, and therefore, from Origen's point of view, of doubtful authority, while the asterisk called attention to words or lines wanting in the Septuagint, but present in the Hebrew.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “The simple obelus apparently denotes interest, the pointed obelus great interest, the doubly pointed obelus intense interest, and the pointing finger of a carefully drawn hand burning interest.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “The purpose of the doubly pointed obelus is plainly indicated here, as it accompanies two of these catchwords.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “It is remarkable, for instance, that on a passage (65, 11) which, as the appended obelus shows, he must have read with attention, he has not added the very different reading of the Parisinus.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “But such was not the usage of Budaeus; he employed the obelus merely to call attention to something that interested him.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “In accurate copies these words are marked with an obelus, [1532] which is the sign of rejection.”

  NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works

• “Strabo xi. 507, et sq. [1532] The obelus (/-) is used by Jerome to mark superfluous matter in the lxx.cf. Jer.p. 494, in Canon Fremantle's Translation.”

  NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works

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