EPIGRAM

w cr in proso or verse, | ege @ the terse and happy expre ion of| ER. ry thought or subject, and in verse | attrib the point of the epicram is usually accent- | contre tated by a striking conclusion. ‘he term | to re was first applied to Greek inscriptions, and | Erasti afterwards to a concise kind of pocm | the Cl often satirical in fecling. fayou [s. 136]