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An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: (epi-gramma) "to write on - inscribe", the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek...
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epigram - Meaning and definition ... It was originally a form of monumental inscription in ancient Greece but was developed into a literary form by the poets of the Hellenistic age and by Martial, a Roman poet whose Epigrams (AD 86-102) were often obscenely insulting.
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...for the modern epigram . See The Epigrams of Martial, tr. by J. Michie (1973); Epigrams/Martial, 3 vol., tr. by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (1993); Martials Epigrams: A Selection, tr. by G. Wills (2008...
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Epigram: A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. ... and in modern times the epigram has been a favorite kind of poetry with most good writers Phćdrus, who lived under Augustus and Tiberius, wrote pleasing fables. — A Smaller History of Rome ... epigram: epigrams...
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His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic elite. With wit and wisdom, Martial evokes not “the grandeur that was Rome,” but rather the timeless themes ... Epigrams (Modern Library Classics) Cover...
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The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel In brilliancy in smallest space, And power to cut as well. Topic: Epigrams; Source: an epigram said by Warton to be the "most celebrated of modern epigrams", in his "Essay on Pope," I,
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