From: Georg Philipp Burth (georg-philipp.burth@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 06:28:20 CET
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Gerhard Thimm wrote:
> > >This sentence is easy to explains: Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas;
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I remember, this is a so called palindrom.
> Letters, words or sentence that reverse are valid, like: "anna" or "eva
> ave".
> The longest palindrom I know in german is: "EIN NEGER MIT GAZELLE ZAGT
> IM REGEN NIE". Of course, impossible to translate to be a palindrom. But
> perhaps there are some in english?
>
> Does anyone knows the name of a "square-palindrom", like this above?
>
> At this point I would like to know the meaning of this latin sentence.
> (What ever said in latin sounds profound! I'm anxious.)
>
There are many possible meanings of this palindrome. One meaning is "Arepo
the sower holds the wheels with care.", another is that you can form a
cross out of the characters with "paternoster" as horizontal AND vertical
lines, leaving 2 A's and 2 O's wich can mean Alpha and Omega - the
beginning and the end. Moreover, the letters of the square can be
rearranged to spell Oro Te, Pater; oro Te, Pater; sanas: "I pray to thee,
Father. Thou healest."
This information was get by looking at www.britannica.com, here
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,59561+1,00.html
There is much more on this site, so have a look at yourself...
Philipp
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