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- noun Plural form of
epigrammatist .
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Examples
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Anacreons: (and therefore Hesiod makes the Muses and Graces still follow Cupid, and as Plutarch holds, Menander and the rest of the poets were love's priests,) all our Greek and Latin epigrammatists, love writers.
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(Donne); all these have the sharp wit with which epigrammatists make their point.
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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_ -- His manner is very original, but some of his motives are taken from Greek epigrammatists, especially from
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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This surely would be the verdict of an impartial critic who compared Homer, the lyrists, the tragedians, Plato, Theocritus, the epigrammatists, with the corresponding names in modern literatures.
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He had won his spurs as a sporting reporter by 1812, and for eleven years was recognised as one of the smartest of the epigrammatists, song-writers, and wits of the time.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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And the epigrammatists, such as they were, tried their goose-quills on the subject: --
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Webster and Stone become the epigrammatists and madrigalists of the press.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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It is not likely that she was one of the innumerable courtesans who, thanks to the liberality of their retainers, led most brilliant lives in Rome at that period; for had she been, the novelists and epigrammatists of the day would have made her famous.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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He wrote in an affected and turgid style, in the classical form of the hexameter; he abounds, however, in brilliant ideas, and in his skilful imitation of the ancients, particularly in his erotic pieces, he surpasses most of the epigrammatists of the imperial period.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Two groups may be distinguished among the Byzantine epigrammatists: one pagan and humanistic in tendency, the other Christian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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