31 DECEMBER 1954, Page 14

PALINDROMEDARY

SIR,-1 can beat the palindrome that Mr Betjeman quoted in your issue of Novenv ber 12, by a Latin one that, some fifty yearl ago, I learnt from E. F. Johns, headmastet of Winton House preparatory school, Will chester: Signa re signa, temere me tan gis et angis, Roma tibi subito motibus ibit anion Unfortunately, having forsaken the classid for science at an early age, I have forgottoll by whom it was written and on what occasion, and confess that I cannot now cow strue it satisfactorily—especially the penis: meter. Perhaps some of your readers coal° help.—Yours faithfully, T. W. KIRKPATRICg

Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture,

Trinidad, B.W.I.