A Discourse on Anagrams as a Part of the Cabala

...they should be seen, and from letters, variously arranged, they are extracted. Furthermore: it is as if the powers and turns of life and death were subject to Anagrammatismo The art of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase., and were governed by the transposition and position of the elements The "elements" refers to the individual letters of the alphabet.. Hence Philostratus, in Book IV, tells of a girl who was being carried out in a funeral procession in Rome, who was brought back to life—as if by a right of return—by Apollonius Apollonius of Tyana, a first-century philosopher and reputed miracle-worker. (let the credit for the story lie with the Author) through the mystery of her name.

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Lycophron the Tragic Poet, famous for composing Ana-
grammatismis. Ptolemaios: "from honey"; Arsinoë: "Juno's violet";
Juno being used to represent the Air. More examples
from Eustathius. Nor was the genius of Homer
far removed from this elegance.

But the chief praise for this Art is attributed by his commentator to Lycophron of Chalcis, a Grammarian and Tragic Poet, one of the Seven who were called the Pleiades A group of seven tragic poets in 3rd-century BC Alexandria, named after the star cluster.. This was perhaps not because he invented Anagrammatismum, but because he used and refined it; he was famous for "speaking in anagrams" original: διὰ τὸ λέγειν ἀναγραμματισμοὺς; because he used to form Anagrammatismos. Indeed, he was dear to Ptolemy Philadelphus, the son of Lagus The text reads "Lai," likely a transcription error for "Lagi," referring to Ptolemy I Soter, the father of Philadelphus., and to his sister Arsinoë, precisely for those delights. To Lycophron, Ptolemaios became "from honey" original: ἀπὸ μέλιτος (apo melitos). The Greek letters in Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaios) can be rearranged to spell ἀπὸ μέλιτος, a compliment to the King's character., by transposing the let-