title: Comma (rhetoric)
text: # Comma (rhetoric)
  
  In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a comma (κόμμα komma, plural κόμματα kommata) is a short clause, something less than a colon.
  
  In the system of Aristophanes of Byzantium, commata were separated by middle interpuncts.
  
  In antiquity, a comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables.
  
  