nec non habentur pro recurrentibus, qui pedum lege servata etsi non per singulos apices, per singula tamen verba replicantur, ut est unum distichon meum (qualia reor equidem legi multa multorum), quod de rivulo lusi, qui repentino procellarum pastus illapsu publicumque aggerem confragoso diluvio supergressus subdita viae culta inundaverat, quamquam depositurus insanam mox abundantiam, quippe quam pluviis appendicibus intumescentem nil superna venae perennis pondera inflarent.
Another class of verses regarded as palindromic consists of those which are reversed, not letter by letter but word by word. To this class belongs a certain couplet of mine (though I fancy that many similar lines by many authors are in circulation). It is a sportive trifle about a brook which, swollen by a sudden onset of stormy weather and overflowing the high road in a turbulent rush of water, had inundated the fields at a lower level; but it was at once to lose this enormous volume, which was merely swollen by the extra rainstorm, not flooded by any weight of water from a perennial source at the head-stream.
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