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 Roy", and "You're damn mad, Roy". [[File:Berg lulu palindrome mirror point.png|thumb|Center part of palindrome in Alban Berg's opera "Lulu"]] [[Joseph Haydn]]'s [[Symphony No. 47 (Haydn)|Symphony No. 47]] in G is nicknamed "the Palindrome". The third movement, [[minuet]] and [[trio (music)|trio]] is a musical palindrome. The second half of the piece is the same as the first but backwards. The interlude from [[Alban Berg]]'s opera "[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]" is a palindrome, as are sections and pieces, in [[arch form]], by many other composers, including [[James Tenney]], and most famously [[Béla Bartók]]. [[George Crumb]] also used musical palindrome to text paint the [[Federico