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Article: Classic Latin palindromes.(Excerpt)
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- Word Ways
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- February 1, 2006
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The following excerpt has been copied from Ove Michaelsen 's unpublished book of palindromes.
In his book Literary Frivolities; Fancies, Follies, and Frolics (London, 1880), William T. Dobson relates the following mediaeval story (taken from Hone's Everyday-Book) showing that his Satanic Majesty was a master of palindromic wordplay:
Saint Martin, having given up the profession of a soldier, and being elected Bishop of Tours, when prelates neither kept horses, carriages, nor servants, had occasion to go to Rome to consult His Holiness upon some important ecclesiastical matter. As he was walking gently along the road he met the Devil, who politely accosted ...