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  1. A short poem, originally a religious
  2. inscription but later a short, witty, and
  3. pithy saying. The form was common among
  4. writers of ancient Rome, including Catullus
  5. and Martial. In English, the epigram has been
  6. employed by Ben Jonson, Herrick, Pope, Swift,
  7. Yeats, and Ogden Nash.
  8.