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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