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Who invented quotation marks?

Aristarchus drew inspiration from his predecessor Zenodotus, who had created the first such mark a century earlier: by marking superfluous lines of text with marginal dashes, or lines , Zenodotus had invented the field of literary criticism quite literally at a stroke.

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