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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALINDROME (Gr. 7raXty, again, and Spbµos, a course)  , a See also:verse or See also:sentence which runs the same when read either backwards or forwards . Such is the verse See also:Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor; or Signa te, signa, temere me tangis et angis; or vii,(iov k voµ,7µare µi7 µovav o>liw . Some have refined upon the See also:palindrome, and composed verses each word of which is the same read backwards as forwards: for instance, that of See also:Camden See also:Odo tenet mulum, madidam mappam tenet See also:Anna, Anna tenet mappam madidam, mulum tenet Odo .

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