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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...

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Palingrams of Apuleius

Apuleius (the prænomen Lucius is doubtful) was, like Fronto, an African, though he may have been of Roman descent.. He was born probably about 125 a. d., at Madaura, on the borders of Numidia and Gætulia. He was educated at Madaura, Carthage, and Athens, travelled extensively, and was for a time in Rome, where he was employed as an advocate. He married Æmilia Pudentilla, a wealthy widow of Oea, in Africa,...

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Recurrent, reciprocal, or reversible words and verses.

Reading in every Style—What is a Palindrome?—What St. Martin said to the Devil—The Lawyer’s Motto—What Adam said to Eve—The Poor Young Man in Love—What Dean Swift wrote to Dr. Sheridan—“The Witch’s Prayer”—The Device of a Lady—Huguenot and Romanist; Double Dealing.      The only fair specimen we can find of reciprocal words, or those which, read backwards or forwards, are the same, is the...

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James Appleton Morgan - Macaronic poetry

Another ingenious verse is the Palindrome, from πάλιν and δρóμος, to flow or run back; sometimes called Sotadic verse, from Sotades, their inventor, though a higher (or a lower) authority is sometimes given; the first palindrome having been, according to one account, the impromptu of an unfortunate demon, while carrying most unwillingly a portly canon of Combremer from Bayeux to Rome; it reads the same either...

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