It makes of satire a frozen obelus, as dependent upon divisiveness as the president himself.

The passage is noted by an asterisk or obelus or other mark in Codd.

It Harklean. represents in the main the text of the later Greek MSS., but it has important textual notes, and has adopted a system of asterisks and obeli from the Hexaplar LXX.

To obtain a thoroughly correct text, he marked with an obelus the lines he considered spurious; other signs were used by him to indicate notes, varieties of reading, repetitions and interpolations.

In his peculiar notation, Asides are marked by inverted commas, and obvious stage business is indicated by an obelus.