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Letter "E" » Epigrams
"What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
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"Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye
Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.
Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved:
So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love.
[Lat., Lumine Acon dextre,–capta est Leonilla sinistre,
Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees:
Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori,
Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.]"
Author: Unattributed Author
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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."
Author: Unattributed Author
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"This picture, plac'd the busts between
Gives Satire all its strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen
While Folly glares at length."
Author: Unattributed Author
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"Unlike my subject, I will make my song.
It shall be witty, and it shan't be long."
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
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"You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long.
You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
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"Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in
public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called
mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be
called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
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"The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
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"You are pretty,–we know it; and young,–it is true; and rich,–
who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly,
Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
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"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me,
Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a
free speaker."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
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