Small heads
The ancient Romans seem to have been the first to consider the divisions of a text as small heads contributing to the body of the whole. Our word 'chapter' comes from the Latin capitulum, the diminutive of caput for head. The chapters are small heads, from which the corpus or body of the text emerges.
Whereever you look on the page, there are heads. The …
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