Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Palatīnus Mons, Palindrome

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The name given to a verse which is the same when read either backwards or forwards. Such verses were written in the decadence of Greek and Latin literature, and similar compositions amused the readers of the Middle Ages. The following is an elaborate example:
Si bene te tua laus taxat sua laute tenebis
Et necat eger (i. e. aeger) amor non Roma rege tacente
Roma reges una non anus eger amor.

A Roman lawyer is said to have produced the following:
Si nummi immunis.
“Give me your fee, and go scot-free.”

For further examples, see Echoïci Versus; and the work by Clark entitled Palindromes (Glasgow, 1887).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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