INTROD. In which the word non serves as a pivot.

Odo tenet mulum, mappam madidam tenet Anna,

is a perfect palindrome.

The line

Sator arepo tenet opera rotas, —

befides being a palindrome, can be arranged in a fquare, when it will be perceived that the first letters of each of its words spell its first word Sator; the fecond, from the second of each, its fecond word Arepo, and so on; thus:

SATOR
ARE PO

TENET

O PE RA

ROTAS

The fame properties exist in the Latin words Timè, Item, Meti, and Emit; thus:

TIME

ITEM

ΜΕΤΙ

EMIT

The following epitaph, at the entrance of the Church of San Salvador, in the city of Oviedo, in Spain, erected by Prince Silo, may be read two hundred and feventy different ways, by beginning with the S in the centre.

SILO PRINCEPS FECIT.

TICEF SPECN CEPS FECIT
ICEF SPECNINCEPS FECI
CEF SPECNIRINCE P C FEC
EF SPEC NIR PRINCEPS FE
F SPECNIRPO PRINCEPS F
SPECNIRPOLO PRINCEPS
PECNIRPOLILO PRINCEP
ECNIRPOLISILO PRINCE
PECNIRPOLILO PRINCEP
SPEC NIR POLO PRINCEPS
F SPECNIRPO PRINCEPS F
EF SPEC NIR PRINCEPS FE
CEF SPECNIRINCEPS FEC
ICEF SPECNINCEPS FECI
TICEF SPECN CEPS FECIT
On the tomb are infcribed these letters:

H. S. E. S. S. T. T. L.

The letters employed in this square being the initials of the words,

Hic fitus eft Silo, fit tibi terra levis.

Here lies Silo, may the earth lie light on him.

The lawyer's motto,

SI NUMMIS IMMUNIS

Give me my fee, and I warrant you free,

Is a palindrome.

In the time of Queen Elizabeth, a noble lady, who had been forbidden to appear at court in

confequence

INTROD.

INTROD. Confequence of fome fufpicions against her, took for the device on her feal, the Moon partly obfcured by a cloud, with the palindromic motto,

ABLATA AT ALBA,
Secluded, but pure.

Taylor, the water poet, writes:

Lewd did I live, and evil did I dwel.

Another Engish palindrome is: —

Snug & raw was I, ere I saw war & guns. And one is put into the mouth of Napoleon the Great: —

Able was I ere I faw Elba.

There is an enigma, in which the initials of five palindromic words are to be fought, to form the required answer; e. g. : —

First find out a word that doth filence proclaim,
And that backwards and forwards is always the same;
Then next you must find out a feminine name,
That backwards and forwards is always the fame;
An act, or a writing on parchment, whose name,
Both backwards and forwards is always the fame ;
A fruit that is rare, whose botanical name,
Read backwards and forwards is always the fame ;
A note used in mufic which time doth proclaim,
And backwards and forwards is always the fame;
Their initials connected, a title will frame
(That is justly the due of the fair married dame,)
Which backwards and forwards is always the fame.

There

There is a well-known Greek inscription on INTROD. the font at Sandbock, in Cheshire, England, as well as in the Church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople :

Νίφον ἀνομήματα μὴ μὲναν ὄψιν.

That is, freely, "Purify the mind as well as the body."

The following verses are reversible in sense,
as well as in words, by being read backwards:
Profpicimus modo, quod durabunt tempore longo,
Fœdera, nec patriæ pax cito diffugiet.

Diffugiet cito pax patriæ, nec fœdera longo,
Tempore durabunt quod modo profpicimus.
Patrum dicta probo, nec facris belligerabo.*

The following are promifcuous examples:

Retro mente labo, non metro continuabo.
Continuabo metro; non labo mente retro.
Sacrum pingue dabo, non macrum facrificabo.
Sacrificabo macrum non dabo pingue facrum.

It is obfervable that the last above hexameter, from Santa Marca Novella, Florence, refers, in the first instance, to the facrifice of Abel (Genefis iv. 4); reverfed, as in the second line, the reference is to the facrifice of Cain (Gen. iv. 3).

Arca

* Expreffing the fentiments of a Romanist or a Huguenot, as it is read forwards or backwards.

INTROD.

Arca ferenum me gere regem, munere facra,
Solem, arcas, animos, omnia facra, melos.
Epitaph on Henry IV., by Pafchafius.

The two following are palindromes:

Madam I'm Adam,

Name no one man.

And Addison tells of à palindrome, called "The Witches' Prayer," which "fell into verfe, when read either backwards or forwards, excepting only that it blessed one way and cursed the other."

In 1802 was printed at Vienna a small volume of palindromes, written in ancient Greek, by Ambrofius, a modern Greek. The volume, which was called “ Ποιημα χαρχινιχόν,” contains four hundred and fifty-fix lines, every one of which is palindromic. Here follows a few of them:

Ίσα πασι Ση τε γη, Συ ό Μουσηγέτης ἴς άπασι.
Νεαν άσω μελιφωνον, ὦ φιλε, Μωσαν, αεν.

Ω λακωνικε, σε μονω τω Νομε, σε κινω καλω.

Αρετα πήγασε σε σα γη πατερα.

Σωτηρ συ εσω, ὦ ελεε θεε λεω ος ευς ρητώς.

Palindromic verfe, which exactly reverses its meaning upon being read backwards, is fometimes called Sidonian verfe, fuch having been first constructed by Sidonius.

The example given below was written in

praise