However, in the literary world, epigrams were most often gifts to patrons or entertaining verse to be published, not inscriptions.
en.wikipedia.org Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period.
en.wikipedia.org Love poems, laments, epigrams, admonitory (didactic) and narrative poems.
en.wikipedia.org It was sprinkled with neat little epigrams in verse, patriotic songs or parodies, with jokes, puns, conundrums, catch-words.
en.wikipedia.org Of his numerous works there remain to us only a few hymns, epigrams and fragments of elegies.
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