epigrammatist
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This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair."
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"Never think of leaving perfume or wine to your heir," advised the Roman epigrammatist Martial.
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He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it.
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Rousseau was also an extremely successful epigrammatist, having in this respect, too, resemblances to Marot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various