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Book Five

Ch. 11.                249

 

B

C

D

L

M

This table consists of three orders of letters.  It would be somewhat more accurate if we should write the middle order of letters in the first place, the third order in the second place, and the first order in the last place. I wish this fact to be well noted, so that what follows may be better understood. The explanation of the table is this:  (1) The Power of the vowels is transfused into the letters immediately beneath; the vowels are, therefore, idle in writing.  (2) If, in turn, these letters into which the vowels have been transfused occur in the sentence which you wish to conceal, their Power is transcribed into the letters which are written in the second line of the second order; or, if you use these transfused letters as letters of the second line, they are clothed in another form.   (3) The consonants written in the third order are mutually

P

S

T

R

N

 

 

H

 

 

H is not transposed

A

E

I

O

U

F

&

Q

L

Z

 

 

 

 

 

F

G

Q

X

Z

Y

S

K

S

F

interchanged and transposed one with another.  (4)  The letter H is not changed, but remains with its own Power.  This much being understood, let us now write the following example, in which all the letters are found together:

Gaza frequens Lybicos, duxit Karthago triumphos.

Gaza frequens lybicos, duxit Karthago triumphos

Sfff yl&kz&mg rfpqslx  tzsqd qfldhfsl dlqznbhlc                                    

Inviti non ambientes in Republican collocandi

Qmzqdq mlm fnpq&md&c qm l&bzprqsfm slrrlsfmtq

The letters in the last place, thus, as seen, transposed, record the famous words of Alexander Severus.  Inviti non ambientes in Republican collocandi.