Un epigrama es una declaración satírica breve, interesante, memorable, a veces sorprendente o humorística. La palabra deriva del griego ἐπίγραμμα. Este dispositivo literario ha sido practicado por más de dos milenios.
“EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.”
“"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Chœrilus. He who speaks against you, Chœrilus, is indeed a free speaker.”
“If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,—a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,—ask the rhetorician Sabinæus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.”
“You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it—I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.”
“And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is invisible.”
“I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction. I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all of existence in an epigram.”
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