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Epigram

a short poem of a pointed or antithetical character, or any short composition expressed neatly and happily or antithetically. Epigram was the name given by the Greeks to a poetic inscription on a public monument, and hence the word came parsed into its modern signification. Of the Roman poets, Catullus and Martial are most celebrated for signification. Of the Roman poets, Catultheir epigrams. In cookery, epigrams of mutton, veal, etc., are small cutlets of mutton, veal, etc., dressed in a particular manner.

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