Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Latin Occult Palindrome Message-ID: <442@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:02:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfc.442 Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:02:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:23:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell Lines: 22 There has been a spate of palindromes in net.bizarre recently which got me thinking about one I remember reading about years ago. It's a Latin phrase, dating from mediaeval times and apparently loaded with occult significance. If I remember correctly, it goes like this: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS In this format you can see that the palindrome works both horizontally and vertically. I'm sure that the five words each with five letters add to the occult value. Does anyone know what, if anything, it means in English or the significance or origin of the phrase? -- rod williams | {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw ------------------------------------------- pacific bell | san ramon | california