section_path: Orthography/Punctuation
section_name: Punctuation
paragraph_text: Punctuation
  
  Classical Latin did not contain sentence punctuation, letter case, or interword spacing, but apices were sometimes used to distinguish length in vowels and the interpunct was used at times to separate words.
  
  The first line of Catullus 3 ("Mourn, O Venuses and Cupids ") was originally written as:
  
  It would be rendered in a modern edition as:
  
  The Roman cursive script is commonly found on the many wax tablets excavated at sites such as forts, an especially extensive set having been discovered at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall in Britain. Most notable is the fact that while most of the Vindolanda tablets show spaces between words, spaces were avoided in monumental inscriptions from that era.