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Sotadios or Sotadʹic Verse

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One that reads backwards and forwards the same as “llewd did I live, and evil I did dwell.” So called from Sotʹades, the inventor. These verses are also called palindromic. (See Palindrome.)

N.B. ll is the old way of writing a capital L.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sorbonica
Sorbonne
Sorceress
Sordello
Sorites (Greek)
Sorrows of Werther
Sortēs Biblicæ
Sortes Virgilianæ
Sorts
Sosia
Sotadios or Sotadic Verse
Sothic Year
Soul
Soul Cakes
Soul and Spirit
Soul of a Goose or Capon
Sound
Sound Dues
Sound as a Bell
Sound as a Roach
Soundings