Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In classical antiquity, a manuscript written, contrary to custom, on the back as well as the front of the roll of papyrus or parchment.
- n. A slab inscribed on the back as well as the front, the side bearing the original inscription having been turned to the wall, and the other side utilized for a later inscription.
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“It was a common practice in Greek and Latin lands to make use of slabs already inscribed, i.e. to take the reverse of a slab containing a heathen inscription for the inscribing of a Christian one; such a slab is called an opisthograph.”
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Poetrie: Opuscule
The Lion's Tooth and Opuntia stand oppositively.
Oppilating them, a penguin.
He finds he's between either side of an opisthograph,
representing sea and sky, grace and flight,
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