For anyone interested in examining the format of the recovered Latin papyri:

1.  A good microphotograph of one of the longer Ennius fragments is
reproduced in M. Gigante, Philodemus in Italy (Ann Arbor 1995), pl. 5

2.  Detailed photographs of the Gallus papyrus can be found in the original
publication (Anderson, R.D., P.J. Parsons, and R.G.M. Nisbet. "Elegiacs by
Gallus from Qasr Ibrim," JRS 69 (1979) 125-155.)

3.  As for the Carmen de Bello Actiaco, there is a nice sketch of part of
that ms. at:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/Class/MurgImgs/carmen.html

A more systematic collection of Latin papyri, somewhat dated now but still
useful, can be had in R. Seider, Palaographie der Lateinischen Papyri
(Stuttgart 1978) vols. 1&2.

All of the early Latin mss. display interpuncts - not to mention various
other punctuation marks whose significance is often quite hard to divine.

Cheers,

Philip Thibodeau
The University of Georgia

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