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Here is a thread recapping #palindrome history week for #TweetHistorians, courtesy of Mark Saltveit who reverts to @taoish now.
Monday, we started with a thread on the ancient sacred origins of palindromes as spells, curses and words of the gods. 1/7 -ms
Monday, we started with a thread on the ancient sacred origins of palindromes as spells, curses and words of the gods. 1/7 -ms
Tuesday: Sotades the Obscene, inventor of palindromes, the Priapeia, sotadean metre and so much more. Also: the kinaidoi (effeminate dancers of Alexandria), Arsinoe the sex-positive proto-feminist queen, incestual royal marriage and sick burns. 2/7 -ms
Wednesday: later antique Greek palindromes from the oldest letter-by-letter verse (a school exercise in Tebtunis Egypt) through the Greek Anthology, Leo the Wise, Western Euopean baptismal fonts and Theodoros Prodromos. 3/7 -ms
Day 6 of palindromic #TwitterHistorian @taoish Mark Saltveit's stint. Yesterday, the SATOR / ROTAS square. Today, "versus recurrentes" = Latin palindromic poetry, mostly 1 line. At #IMC2021, I argued that it was a continuous & self-referential genre from 2nd-15th c. CE.
1/12 -ms
1/12 -ms
I listed 42 but documenting is tricky. These were rarely in main texts. Most appeared in margins or on fly leaves, but repeated over the centuries. Theory: these were transmitted by teachers, esp. of scribes, and passed via wax tablets, memory & pen tests (federproben).
2/12 -ms
2/12 -ms
The classic (and first known) Latin verse #palindrome is a dactylic pentameter: "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor." Sidonius Apollinaris (ep. 9.14, ~480 CE) called it ancient. It's on a roof tile from Aquincum dated 107 CE next to a ROTAS square & at Ostia (200 CE). 3/12 -ms
The 10 Days of darkness just happens to be a palindrome.
1.20.21 to 1.29.21
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward.
They just happen to proof to Q drops😁
1.20.21 = 303 = 282
= Shutdown > Day 1 ⚔️
1.20.21 to 1.29.21
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward.
They just happen to proof to Q drops😁
1.20.21 = 303 = 282
= Shutdown > Day 1 ⚔️
Palindrome proof for 1.21.21
1.21.21 = 313 = 101 = 838
[R] USSS name for Hussein = Renegade
Graphic confirmed
Times on ⏰
8:00
12:00 > 6:00
2:00
8
1+2 = 3
6+2 = 8
838 drop = BOOM.
BOOM
MOOB
Who is BM or MB? 🤷♀️
#anons?
1.21.21 = 313 = 101 = 838
[R] USSS name for Hussein = Renegade
Graphic confirmed
Times on ⏰
8:00
12:00 > 6:00
2:00
8
1+2 = 3
6+2 = 8
838 drop = BOOM.
BOOM
MOOB
Who is BM or MB? 🤷♀️
#anons?
1.22.21 #palindrome 👀
1.22.21 > 323 proofs to @POTUS45 timestamp ✅
1:11 pm > 111
Oct 11, 2012 > 10.11.2012
10+11 = 21
21012 < ~ palindrome proof ✅
4th quarter, Patriots 🥳
We fight together.
Q
1.22.21 > 323 proofs to @POTUS45 timestamp ✅
1:11 pm > 111
Oct 11, 2012 > 10.11.2012
10+11 = 21
21012 < ~ palindrome proof ✅
4th quarter, Patriots 🥳
We fight together.
Q
