{"id":331,"date":"2013-02-14T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=331"},"modified":"2013-02-16T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:53:27","slug":"latin-palindromes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2013\/02\/14\/latin-palindromes\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin Palindromes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my students asked me the other day if there were any Latin palindromes. I said I didn\u2019t know any, but I knew where to look. I went straight to the wonderful book of Latin word games,\u00a0<i>Bella Bulla: Lateinische Sprachspielereien<\/i>, by Hans Weis (Bonn: Ferd. D\u00fcmmlers Verlag, 1985). Below are my personal favorites:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2011\/11\/02\/8598837-happy-palindrome-day-again?lite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/111102-coslog-palindrome-10a.photoblog600.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aziz Inan \/ Univ. of Portland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AURES SERUA (\u201csafeguard your ears\u201d), good advice for all aspiring rock musicians<\/p>\n<p>SOL ATTIGIT TALOS (\u201cthe sun touched your ankles\u201d), perhaps a compliment for a lady in a very long dress?<\/p>\n<p>SIGNA TE! SIGNA! TEMERE ME TANGIS ET ANGIS. (\u201cSignify yourself! Signify! You are rashly touching and distressing me\u201d) All sorts of applications for this one in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>MITIS ERO, RETINE LENITER ORE SITIM (\u201cI will be kindly, gently restrain the thirst in my mouth\u201d). Perhaps best spoken to a bottle of beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my students asked me the other day if there were any Latin palindromes. I said I didn\u2019t know any, but I knew where to look. I went straight to the wonderful book of Latin word games,\u00a0Bella Bulla: Lateinische &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2013\/02\/14\/latin-palindromes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61782,61741,61781],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bella-bulla","tag-latin-language","tag-palindromes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}