EPIGRAM


Meaning of EPIGRAM in English

noun

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An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana.

He would end his lecture with a summarizing epigram .

His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.

In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram .

Political problems which might have stymied Solomon were resolved in a pun or an epigram ..

Scattered through its numerous volumes are priceless gems of poetry, epigram , and story-telling.

The hon. and learned Gentleman made an epigram out of it.

Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.

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