adv. and a. (sb.) [Gr. βουστροφηδόν, adv. f. βου-στρόφος ox-turning.] (Written) alternately from right to left and from left to right, like the course of the plow in successive furrows; as in various ancient inscriptions in Greek and other languages. Hence Boustrophedonic a.
1783. Blair, Rhet. (1812), I. vii. 155. Afterwards, the Greekes adopted a new method, writing their lines alternately from the right to the left, and from the left to the right, which was called Boustrophedon.
1846. Ellis, Elgin Marb., II. 174. A very antient Greek inscription, written in the boustrophedon manner.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xi. III. 176.
1880. Times, 6 Nov., 4/5. The usual boustrophedon manner which the Hittites affected.
1801. J. Hager, Babylon. Inscr., 11. The Prytaneum, where the laws of Solon in boustrophedonic writing were kept.
