This blog post is based upon a chapter of my new book entitled “Coded Messages in the Pastorals”. This chapter is one of the key chapters that describes a specific mnemonic devise that was apparently used in Rome starting from the first century AD, most likely, into the second century. This blog post is a shortened version of the chapter of this book which can be found on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2vdLyOF There is a famous palindrome called the Sator Square that points to how the Romans used mnemonic devices to solidify certain concepts in the minds of Roman soldiers, plebeians and slaves. These devices could also be used to guide the writing process of propagandistic materials intended to accomplish a particular (social) goal. A person trained in using these devices could be counted upon to stay “on script” and, in a sense, they are the precursors of what we call today “talking points”. The Sator square is thought by some to have merely been a mind game, but I think i...