Evolution of the epigram

The significance of the word epigram is-obviously-briefness. Space for tomb-writing was limited. The word is kin to maxim, Latin for greatest. This implies most wisdom in least space. Another in the family is proverb, Latin for words put forward-a pithy saying often in metaphor. In turn, metaphor means something over your head, which suggests that our definitions cease. An old English epigram is, Know all you speak, but speak not all you know. If we took Prentice's pointed epigram about authors seriously, this article would not be written. But Oliver Goldsmith wrote that there is nothing so absurd that has not at some time been said by some philosopher, hence we will dismiss any slur upon our intentions. We will continue this article to some appropriate ending; this, too, has been the subject of irreverent epigram-makers. Epigrams are the oldest-also the newest-forms of concise comment. Let this be proved by a series on a single subject-woman. This from the ancient Hebrew: One hair of a woman draws more than a team of

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