Boustrophedic

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.

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

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.

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.

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.