The least of a little"[27] was sufficient to lay before gods who had no need of riches; and as the art of the epigrammatist grew more refined, the poet took pride in working with the slightest materials.
Theaetetus Scholasticus, a Byzantine epigrammatist of the period of Justinian) and two more in Diogenes Laërtius.
This last aspect of death was the one upon which the art of the epigrammatist lavished its utmost resources.
When the infinitely trivial is a theme for verse, the epigrammatist has the advantage of the author of the more lengthy Silvae.
It would be unjust to demand a deep fund of earnestness from a professed epigrammatist dowered with a gift of humour and a turn for satire.
Logau, an epigrammatistof the 17th century, and introduced to the German public the Lieder eines preussischen Grenadiers, by J.
Kastner, professor of mathematics and also an epigrammatist of repute.
By one of the curious accidents of literary history Martial, as the only Latin epigrammatist who left a large mass of work, gave a meaning to the word epigram from which it is only now beginning to recover.
That singular product of the last days of paganism, the epigrammatist Palladas of Alexandria, is the only ancient author who shows the same spirit.
I must close our notice of Crashaw as an Epigrammatist with some parallels from 'The Epigrammatists' of the Rev.
Nay, do not give up all hope," retorted theepigrammatist scornfully.
He had yielded to the pressure of curiosity or of fashion--particularly when the name of the famous epigrammatist had weighed down the scale.
Only the name of one obscure epigrammatist has been embalmed for us in the verses of his rival.
The epigrammatist still lingers, and sometimes dines; but his roses have faded, and the weariness of his audience is no longer a pose.
It is recognised that life with an epigrammatist has become unendurable.
