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Epigram
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An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or humorous satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα. This literary device has been practiced for over two mil
Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.
Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.
Martial
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Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian,
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…and then later throughout Europe, Epigram came to be associated with 'point', especially because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model; he copied and adapted Greek models (particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus) selectively and in the process…
Likeness of Martial, supposedly engraved from an ancient gem
Likeness of Martial, supposedly engraved from an ancient gem
15th-century manuscript of the Epigrams
15th-century manuscript of the Epigrams
Pereunt et imputantur ("[the hours] pass away and [yet] are accounted for") is commonly inscribed on clocks, as on this one in Palermo.
Pereunt et imputantur ("[the hours] pass away and [yet] are accounted for") is commonly inscribed on clocks, as on this one in Palermo.