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What is a stichometry?

What is a stichometry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain.
  2. The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
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In the opinion of some, the use of the dot, at least to some extent, was earlier than stichometry.
However this may be, the original conception doubtless came from the stichometry of Hebrew poetry.
If the stichometry of Nicephorus is right, the existing form of the book is merely fragmentary compared with its original compass.

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