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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]
Some thirty-seven epigrams are attributed to Marcus in the Greek Anthology, most of which are erotic, and some are plays on words. [2] Stylistic evidence suggests he wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire , certainly not later than the middle of the first century AD, and his received epithet ( argentarius , "money changer") supports a ...
They include eight "love" or "amatory" epigrams (one commemorative, six erotic, and one funerary); [2] dedicatory epigrams; sepulchral epigrams, and dedicatory or descriptive epigrams. Typical of ancient Greek literature (and regardless of their Platonic authenticity), the epigrams refer to historical personalities, places in and around ancient ...
Epigrams Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial / ˈ m ɑːr ʃ əl / ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain ) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams , published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian , Nerva and Trajan .
John William Mackail, Select epigrams from the Greek Anthology; Harold Anthony Lloyd, The Complete Palladas (complete verse translation of all the epigrams) "Palladas", William Smith, ed., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3, p. 94.
Leonidas [a] of Alexandria (/ l i ˈ ɒ n ɪ d ə s,-d æ s /; Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας; Latin: Leonidas Alexandrinus; fl. 1st century AD) was a Greek epigrammatist active at Rome during the reigns of Nero and Vespasian. Some of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and in one he lays claim to having invented the isopsephic ...
The Liber epigrammatum is a collection of Latin epigrammatic poems composed by the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735). The modern title comes from a list of his works at the end of his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (V.24.2): "librum epigrammatum heroico metro siue elegiaco" ("a book of epigrams in the heroic or elegiac meter").
[2] [3] Euripides' phrase "underwent all kinds of variations", [4] [n 1] especially in Latin poets like Propertius, Ovid, Martial, and Persius; [9] [5] [10] [11] [12] although some minor variants like Sit Ei Terra Levis – abbreviated to SETL – are attested, [13] and excluding Roman Africa which developed its own stock formula (Ossa Tibi ...