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Ruga's positioning of ⟨ g ⟩ shows that alphabetic order, related to the letters ' values as Greek numerals, was a concern even in the 3rd century BC.
Sampson ( 1985 ) suggests that: " Evidently the order of the alphabet was felt to be such a concrete thing that a new letter could be added in the middle only if a ' space ' was created by the dropping of an old letter.
" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.

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