Editing Sator Square (section)

===Further anagrams===

Attempts have been made to discover "hidden meanings" by the [[Anagram|anagrammatic method]] of rearranging the letters of which the square is composed.<ref name=MRS/>

* In 1883, German historian [[Gustav Fritsch]] reformed the letters to discover an invocation to Satan:<ref name=MRS/><ref name=":0"/>
*:SATAN, ORO TE, PRO ARTE A TE SPERO
*:SATAN, TER ORO TE, OPERA PRAESTO
*:SATAN, TER ORO TE, REPARATO OPES
* French historian [[Guillaume de Jerphanion]] catalogued examples that were known formulas for an [[exorcism]] such as:<ref name=":0"/>
*:RETRO SATANA, TOTO OPERE ASPER, and the prayers
*:ORO TE PATER, ORO TE PATER, SANAS
*:O PATER, ORES PRO AETATE NOSTRA
*:ORA, OPERARE, OSTENTA TE PASTOR
* In 1887, Polish [[Ethnography|ethnographer]] [[Oskar Kolberg]] amended the strict anagrammatic approach by using abbreviations and thus deduced from the 25 letters of the Sator Square the 36 letters of the monastic rule: SAT ORARE POTEN (TER) ET OPERA(RE) R(ATI)O T(U)A S(IT),<ref name=":0"/> which he considered an ancient rule of the Benedictines; French historian Gaston Letonnelier made a similar approach in 1952 to get the Christian prayer: SAT ORARE POTEN(TIA) ET OPER(A) A ROTA S(ERVANT), which translates as: "Prayer is our strength and will save us from the wheel (of fate?)".<ref name=MRS/>
* In 1935, German art historian {{ill|Kuno von Hardenberg|de}} believed he discovered the relief the [[Rose of Sharon]] gave to [[Saint Peter]] for the sin of his denial of Christ, with the anagram PETRO ET REO PATET ROSA SARONA, which translates as "For Peter even guilty the rose of Sharon is open"; academics refuted his interpretation.<ref name=MRS/><ref name=":0"/>
* In 2003, American historian [[Rose Mary Sheldon]] listed some of the many diverse sentences that can be produced from anagrams of the square including her favorite: APATOR NERO EST, which would translate as saying that the Roman emperor [[Nero]] was the result of a virgin birth.<ref name=MRS/>