Excerpt from Epigrams, Ancient and Modern: Humorous, Witty, Satirical, Moral, and Panegyrical, Monumental "Omne epigramma sit instar apis, sit aculeus illi, Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui." "An Epigram should be, if right, Short, simple, pointed, keen, and bright, A lively little thing! Like wasp with taper body - bound By lines - not many - neat and round, All ending in a sting." From the present popular use of the word Epigram, we get but an imperfect idea of what the Greeks intended that term to express. Literally speaking, it means an Inscription, and was employed by that people to indicate the eulogy which they usually inscribed upon their temples, statues, monuments, or trophies. From the very nature of the materials upon which such eulogies had to be engraven, the words, of necessity, were required to be few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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