a verse or sentence which runs the same when read either backwards or forwards. Such is the verse,

Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amar.

Some people of leisure have refined upon the palindromus, and composed verses, each word of which is the same read backwards as forwards; for instance, that of Camden:

Odo tenet mulum, malidam mappam tenet Anna. Anna tenet mappam malidam, mulum tenet Odo.