Showing posts with label Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas


I am full of my answers,
but orphan of my clues.

(See our previous post about this palindromic magic phrase)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas

This untranslatable palindromic charm, discovered as graffiti in Pompeii, dates back to the first century CE. Written as a “magic square,” the sentence reads the same left to right, bottom to top, top to bottom, and backwards.