BOUSTROPHEDON (from βῶς, and στροφή), a term descriptive of the early Greek manner of writing, in which the lines ran from left to right and from right to left alternately. It was so named from its resemblance to the path of oxen in ploughing a field. In this manner Solon's laws were written, and also the Sigeian Inscription, op. Bockh (i. p. 15).