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
"Never think of leaving perfume or wine to your heir," advised the Roman epigrammatist Martial.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Rus mihi dulce sub urbe est," sang the Roman epigrammatist Martial in the ist century A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
No history of French literature, however, would be complete without a notice of Piron, the greatest epigrammatist of France, and one of her keenest and brightest wits.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
