Roman Uncial: Gaps between Words.

ROMAN UNCIAL: GAPS BETWEEN WORDS

8. Are there any gaps between the words yet?
Not really. Like Roman Rustic, it is written in scripta continua, ('continuous writing'). There are however gaps to indicate pauses for breath/syntactical breaks.
Words are even broken in the middle, without a hyphen, if there is not room for a whole word at the end of a line, as at the end of line 5/beginning of line 6, where the word is AUXEN-TIUS, and at the end of line 7, where INTELLE- must have an ending:

The transcription below shows what it would look like in a modern edition, with word-separation and punctuation:

-TVR IN FILIO, SI VNIVS DIVINITATIS CHRISTVS ET DEVS SVNT, CVR
HOC NON SIMPLICITER SCRIPSIT? SI TIBI NON SVNT, CVR
HOC NON SIMPLICITER DENEGASTI? ARCANVM IGITVR
TAM PESTIFERI MYSTERII OPTASSEM, FRATRES, IPSE POTIVS QVAM
PER LITTERAS REVELARE, ET OMNES BLASPHEMIAS AVXEN-
TIVS VERBIS SINGVLIS EXPLICARE. VERVM QVIA ID NON
LICET SALTIM VNVSQVISQVE QVOD SIBI PLACEAT INTELLE-

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