Of Cordova itself, except in a single epigram, Seneca makes no mention; but this epigram suffices to show that he must have been familiar with its stirring and memorable traditions.
An epigram is written there, the significance of which is to this effect, that the water is excellent for bathing, but that taken as drink, it knocks out the teeth by the roots.
In the island of Zea is a spring of which those who thoughtlessly drink lose their understanding, and an epigram is cut there to the effect that a draught from the spring is delightful, but that he who drinks will become dull as a stone.
She would have felt cramped and caged in the conventional atmosphere of a drawing room in which the gravest problems were apt to be forgotten in the flash of an epigram or the turn of a bon mot.
A neatly turned epigram or a clever letter made a social success.
If Lucien was surprised at the apt wit and the subtlety with which these gentlemen formulated their replies, he felt bewildered with epigram and repartee, and, most of all, by their offhand way of talking and their ease of manner.
Epigram breaks out the more for repressive legislation; it is like steam in an engine without a safety-valve.
Epigram is distilled rancor, the quintessence of a hate derived from all the worst passions of man, even as love concentrates all that is best in human nature.
The sentiment of the Greek epigram is well expressed in the following Latin verses: "Quando intueor te, adoro, et sermones, Virginis domum sideream intuens.
To give a notion of this singular collection take an Epigram addressed to a Jesuit, who, young as he was, used to put spurs under his shirt to mortify the outer man!
The epigram made against Pope for the assistance W.
The feathered arrow of an epigram has sometimes been wet with the heart's blood of its victim.
All the small wits of the time showered on Handel epigram and satire unceasingly.
His proneness to satire and power of epigram made him enemies, but even these yielded to the suavity and fascination which alternated with his bitter moods.
I shall subjoin an epigram of his as a specimen of his poetry.
What wit, what smartness, what epigramwould abound!
A ploughboy's epigramwould not have seemed more out of place.
Beau continued, tripping from an epigramto a truism.
This evening he surpassed himself in epigram and logic; no doubt he desired to overcome the Nun's obstinate scepticism as to his career, no less than to maintain his popularity in Meriton.
He riddled the enemy with epigram till he fell to the earth, then he jumped on to his prostrate form and chopped it to pieces with logic.
It is not quite clear whether the epigram was meant as compliment or as criticism.
He is credited with an epigram which in itself might insure him perpetuity of fame: "There is no royal road to geometry," was his answer to Ptolemy when that ruler had questioned whether the Elements might not be simplified.
I have discovered that these lines are from an epigram in Thomas Bastard's Chrestoleros, 1598, sig.
When Pygmalion was published Hall wrote a poor epigram (see vol.
What is apt for an epigram is not apt for a revolution: the shock of a witty antithesis is related to the healthy stimulus of creative thinking, as a small electrical battery to the terrestrial currents.
Sieur Caron; and fancies his thin epigram may be a kind of reason.
He is thus described, in an epigram on Lord Allpride: Against his stars the coxcomb ever strives, And to be something they forbid contrives.
It would appear that it was in the effort to solve this problem that Menaechmus discovered the conic sections, which are called, in an epigram by Eratosthenes, "the triads of Menaechmus".
Archimedes is further credited with the authorship of the famous Cattle-Problem enunciated in a Greek epigram edited by Lessing in 1773.
As the title of this epigram also suggests, window panes were not the only surfaces considered appropriate for such writing.
The French are not the only People who boast of the Grandeur and other Advantages of Lyons, as appears from this Epigram by Scaliger.
His equal Respect to different Orders, and an Epigram upon his Mandate, in favour of the Constitution Unigenitus, 193.
He says: "Have you heard at Rochecotte a pleasantepigram by Garnier Pagès, who is to speak to-day?
