Noun:

கருத்து நிரம்பிய சிறு வாசகம்,

epigrams's Usage Examples:

He also put into elegiac metre, in 106 epigrams, some of Augustine's theological dicta.

I could not keep pace with all these literary folk as they glanced from subject to subject and entered into deep dispute, or made conversation sparkle with epigrams and happy witticisms.

He is said to have written the history of his consulship and the Cimbrian War after the manner of Xenophon; two epigrams by him have been preserved, one on Roscius the celebrated actor (Cicero, De Nat.

The record of these recensions is preserved by two epigrams, one of which proceeds from Artemidorus, a grammarian, who lived in the time of Sulla and is said to have been the first editor of these poems.

He was the author of a collection of epigrams called Cicuta (" hemlock") 1 from their bitter sarcasm, and of a beautiful epitaph on the death of Tibullus; of elegiac poems, probably of an erotic character; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a prose work on wit (De urbanitate).

In defending his proposals Mr Disraeli gave full scope to his most characteristic gifts; he pelted his opponents right and left with sarcasms, taunts and epigrams.

Mention must also be made of his epigrams, which he styled "Trifles" (Fraszki); they are full of spirit and geniality.

About a hundred epigrams by him in various metres (the elegiac predominating) have been preserved.

He is further called an epic poet by Suidas, and three epigrams in the Greek Anthology are assigned to him.

Collection of bawdy epigrams to the Roman god Priapus; the illustration of the first page may not be suitable for work.

His simple and forcible mode of expressing himself gave birth to the proverbial expression "Scythian eloquence," but his epigrams are as unauthentic as the letters which are often attributed to him.

He himself was not only a Huguenot, but a freethinker, and had made unsparing use of his sharp wit in epigrams on the Church and on the government.

astronomy, learning the French tongue, and recreating his tired spirits on the viol," 2 or translating epigrams from the Greek anthology; another while resolving to take priest's orders.

Synonyms:

saying, quip, expression, locution,

Antonyms:

misconstruction, euphemism, dysphemism,