boustrophedic

English

Adjective

boustrophedic (comparative more boustrophedic, superlative most boustrophedic)

1. Synonym of boustrophedon
   • 1883, T[homas] Seymour Burt, The Æneid, Georgics, and Eclogues of Virgil Rendered into English Blank Verse; Together with Other of His Poems, Not Hitherto Translated; to Which Are Appended Maphæus Vegius’ Book XIII., a Supplement to the Æneid; as Well as Material Proposed for a Book XIV. to the Same, volume the third, London: Effingham Wilson, page iv:

     None of the lines of the Translation to be doubled into more than one, the quasi-boustrophedic system being most objectionable; but each line to be made complete in itself.

   • 1901, Proceedings of the Sessions of the American Philological Association Held at Philadelphia, Pa., Dec., 1900 and at Cambridge, Mass., July, 1901, Also of the Session of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Held at San Francisco, Cal., Dec., 1900, page xvii:

     If the regular boustrophedic order is preserved, evam and not mave must be read.

   • 1904, [Welbore] S.ͭ Clair Baddeley, Recent Discoveries in the Forum, 1898-1904, London: George Allen, page 16:

     The moulded pedestals for the missing lions may be safely dated to the sixth century b.c., while the stela with its Boustrophedic inscription, may belong to a yet remoter period, albeit the writing does not discover to us its date, seeing that we do not know precisely down to which century archaic epigraphy of this character survived.

   • 1913, S. B. P., “I Fasti Consolari Romani. By Giovanni Costa. Milan: Libreria Editrice Milanese, 1910. Vol. I, Parts 1 and 2. Pp. x+547; 150. L’Originale dei Fasti Consolari. By Giovanni Costa. Rome: E. Loescher & Co., 1910. Pp. 77.”, in Classical Philology, volume VIII, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, pages 488–489:

     From his study of the lists of military tribunes with consular power for the thirty-four years in which these lists are given in our sources with variations in number and order, he comes to the conclusion that these variations are to be explained primarily by the boustrophedic method of writing employed in the original. […] This boustrophedic method, therefore, having been proved for the lists of military tribunes, must be applied to the entire fasti of the earlier period, and, in the author’s opinion, it is this that was the ultimate cause of variation between the two subsequent traditions, the chronographic and annalistic.

   • 1998, H. Choset, P. Pignon, “Coverage Path Planning: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition”, in Alexander Zelinsky, editor, Field and Service Robotics, Springer-Verlag London Limited, page 206:

     When the robot enters an “uncleaned” cell, the boustrophedic motion is planned, and then a path to the next cell in the path list in planned.