Palindrome (; "again") and ' (; "way, direction"). Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different
Palindrome palindrome (such as actors [[Robert Trebor]] and [[Steve Evets]] and rock-vocalist [[Ola Salo]]), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist [[Revilo P. Oliver]] or the flamenco dancer [[Sara Baras]]). There are also palindromic names in fictional media. "Stanley Yelnats" is the name of a character in "[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]", a 1998 novel and [[Holes (film)|2003 film]]. Four of the fictional "[[Pokémon]]" [[List of Pokémon|species]] have palindromic names in English ([[Eevee]], Girafarig, Ho-Oh, and Alomomola). The 1970s pop band [[ABBA]] is a palindrome using the starting letter of the first name of each of the four