e/Sicilicus

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has gloss	eng: In Old Latin a sicilicus is a diacritical mark like a laterally inverted C (Ɔ) placed above a letter and evidently deriving its name from its shape like a little sickle (which is sicilis in Latin). The ancient sources say that during the time of the Republic it was placed above a geminate consonant to indicate that the consonant counted twice, although there is hardly any epigraphic and paleographic evidence available from such an early time. When such geminate consonants began to be represented during classical times by writing the letter twice, the sicilicus naturally fell into disuse. Plautus appears to allude to the sicilicus in the prologue to Menaechmi.
lexicalization	eng: sicilicus
instance of	c/Alphabetic diacritics