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Epigram, a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement; Incipit, the first few words of a text, employed as an identifying label; Flavor text, applied to games and toys; Prologue, an opening to a story that establishes context and may give background
Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.. An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription", from ἐπιγράφειν [epigráphein], "to write on, to inscribe"). [1]
From Book IV of the Planudean Anthology, Epigrams on monuments, statues, etc. Cypris, seeing Cypris in Cnidus, said, "Alas! alas! where did Praxiteles see me naked?" "Cypris" refers to Aphrodite. This epigrams is considered anonymous by the Paton edition of the Greek Anthology, but J.M. Edmonds considers spurious the previous two on the same ...
75. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg 76. “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard.
Happy back to school! Parents, teachers and students, find funny and motivational back-to-school quotes about education, learning and working with others.
According to the one-sentence introduction, each epigram was, apparently, a kind of subtitle for a relief decorating each column of the temple, illustrating a scene from Greek mythology. The prose preamble, taking the place of the carved image, provides a description of it. [ 5 ]
Epigram On an Amorous Doctor "From Rufa's eye sly Cupid shot his dart" Unknown 1796, April 2 Epigram Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some" Unknown 1912 Epigram On Deputy —— "By many a booby's vengeance bit" Unknown 1798, January 2 Epigram To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c.
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