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Palindrome, from the Greek palin-dromos, running back again. This is a word, sentence, or verse that reads the same both forwards and backwards - as: madam,level,reviver;live on no evil; love your treasure and treasure your love;you provoked Harry before Harry provoked you;servants respect masters when masters respect servants. Numerous examples of Palindrome or reciprocal word-twisting exist in Latin...

If anyone thinks it a small and unimportant matter to govern the tongue, another point I promised to touch on, he is very far from the reality.For silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. And that is, I think, the reason why the ancients instituted the mysteries that we, learning therein to be silent, might transfer our secrecy to the gods to human affairs. And no one ever yet...

The Ionic dialect also supplies us with poems of Sotades, and with what before his time were called Ionic poems, such as those of Alexander the Ætolian, and Pyres the Milesian, and Alexas, and other poets of the same kind; and Sotades is called κιναιδόλογος.And Sotades the Maronite was very notorious for this kind of poetry, as Carystius of Pergamus says in his essay on Sotades; and so was the son of Sotades,...

A Greek poet of Thrace. He wrote verses against Philadelphus Ptolemy, for which he was thrown into the sea in a cage of lead. He was called Cinædus, not only because he was addicted to the abominable crime which the surname indicates, but because he wrote a poem in commendation of it. Some suppose, that instead of the word Socraticos in the 2nd satire, verse the 10th, of Juvenal, the word Sotadicos...

Palindromical Lines (Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366.). Besides the habitats already given for the Greek inscription on a font, I have notes of the like at Melton Mowbray; St. Mary's, Nottingham; in the private chapel at Longley Castle; and at Hadleigh. At this last place, it is noted in a church book to be taken out of Gregory Nazienzen (but I never could find it), and a reference is made to Jeremy Taylor's Great...

Reversible Names and Words (Vol. viii., p. 244.).I cannot call to mind any such propria mascula: but I think I can cast a doubt on your correspondent's crotchet. Surely our civic authorities (not even excepting the Mayor) are veritable males, though sometimes deserving the sobriquet of "old women." Surveyors, builders, carpenters, and bricklayers are the only persons who use the level. On board...

Palindromes One of the most remarkable palindromes is the following: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS. Its distinguishing peculiarity is that the first letter of each successive word writes to spell the first word; the second letter of each the second word, and so on throughout; and the same will be found as precisely true upon reversal. But the neatest and prettiest that has yet appeared comes from a...

PalindromesA palindrome is a word, sentence, or verse that reads the same, forward and backward, from left to right, or from right to left.The Latin language abounds with palindromes, but there are few good ones in English. The following will serve as specimens. Madam, I’m Adam. (Adam to Eve.) Able was I ere I saw Elba. (Napoleon loq.) Name no one man. Red root put up to order. Draw pupil’s lip upward. No,...

At what time of day was Adam created? A little before Eve.Spell “Adam’s Express Company” with three letters. E-v-e.When were walking-sticks first mentioned in the Bible? When Eve presented Adam with a little Cain (cane).What fur did Adam and Eve wear? Bear (bare) skin.Who was the fastest runner in the world? Adam, because he was first in the race.The following is a good sell if properly led up to: Who was the...

British Theology Some of the best British theology is Baptist. Among John Bunyan's works we may mention his “Gospel Truths Opened,” though his “Pilgrim's Progress” and “Holy War” are theological treatises in allegorical form. Macaulay calls Milton and Bunyan the two great creative minds of England during the latter part of the 17th century. John Gill's “Body of Practical Divinity” shows much ability,...

A kind of anagram in which the transposition of the letters is regular is the palindrome, which is a spelling constructed from another spelling by the simple process of reversing the sequence of the letters.Two famous palindromes are AMOR for ROMA and AVE for EVA. AVON is the palindrome of NOVA; and the palindrome is intended, I believe, in the reference to Avon in Jonson's poem in the Shakespeare Folio. The...

NAPOLEON’S PALINDROME Able was I ere I saw Elba. ADAM AND EVE’S PALINDROME Madam, I’m Adam! When Charles Grant, Colonial Secretary, was made Lord Glenelg, in 1835, he was called Mr Facing-both-ways, because his title Glenelg was a perfect palindrome, that could be read with the same result from either end. It was a member of the same family who sought to prove the antiquity of his race by altering...

On palindromes.(Vol vii., p. 178. &c.)Several of your correspondents have offered Notes upon these singular compositions, and Agricola de Monte adduces "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ, ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" as an example. As neither he nor Mr. Ellacombe give it as found out of this country, allow me to say that it was to be seen on a benitier in the church of Notre Dame at Paris. If it were not for the substitution of the...

Enquire Within Upon Everything

About Sotades in Plutarch's Morals

Sotades, a libellous poet, put to death

Sotădes, an athlete

Palindromical Lines

Reversible Names and Words

The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

Facts and fancies

Biblical Conundrums about Adam and Eve

Abba forward and backward

The cryptography of Shakespeare

Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

On palindromes

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