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  Epigram - LoveToKnow 1911
The epigram is one of the most catholic of literary forms, and lends itself to the expression of almost any feeling or thought.
Of the epigram as cultivated by the Greeks an account is given in the article Anthology, discussing those wonderful collections which bid fair to remain the richest of their kind.
On the subsequent history of the epigram, indeed, Martial has exercised an influence as baneful as it is extensive, and he may fairly be counted the far-off progenitor of a host of scurrilous verses.
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EpiGram is a program for producing diagrams for inclusion in articles and reports.
It is called EpiGram because it was written to create epidemiological contact tracing and social network diagrams for inclusion in outbreak and other epidemiological reports.
EpiGram is a 32-bit Microsoft Windows application and will run under Microsoft Windows '95, '98, and NT 4.00 or later.
www.brixtonhealth.com /epigram.html   (0 words)

  
 epigram - Search Results - MSN Encarta
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement.
The epigram is a brief couplet or quatrain.
Epigrams are usually satirical, aphoristic and witty and often express a comic turn of thought.
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 Epigram Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Beazley, J.D. ‘The Epigram of Boupalos and Athenis.’ JHS 59, 1939, 282.
Beazley, J.D. ‘The Epigram of Boupalos and Athenis.’ JHS 59, 1939, 282ff.
Kallikrates of Samos in the Milan epigrams.’ GRBS 43, 2002/03, 243-66.
www.gltc.leidenuniv.nl /index.php3?m=57&c=133&garb=0.08742138135688726   (8809 words)

  
 Ancient borrowings | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books
The narrator's favourite epigram tells us of the very connection between these shards of wisdom and the violence to which the characters are drawn.
Epigrams and epigraphs have an overlooked role in the history of the novel as a literary genre, recording its negotiations with older forms of high literature.
Epigrams are a novel's connections to a world to which it cannot belong.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviewbookclub/story/0,12286,876760,00.html   (725 words)

  
 EPIGRAM - Online Information article about EPIGRAM
title of epigram, and precise enough to exclude all others.
lover of epigrams must feel, most of them have been attended with very partial success.
The epigram is one of the most See also:
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 Applied Type System vs. Epigram | Lambda the Ultimate
Epigram is focused squarely on pushing dependent typing and has a lot more power with regards to defining your own datatypes.
Epigram is powerful just as Coq and LEGO, it is a really dependently typed programming language where proof and algorithmic code are intermingled in an elegant way.
Epigram is a programming language giving you adapted syntax and constructs to program, and a nice typing and editing system.
lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/1566   (776 words)

  
 Epigrams
According to the Oxford dictionary, an epigram is "a short poem ending in a witty turn of thought; pointed saying or mode of expression." But to me a definition cannot capture the spirit of something, and this is especially true of epigrams.
I feel this is true in that an epigram opens the door to an issue or subject without limiting or defining it, and invites the reader to take it further.
To Cruickshanks, "Epigrams are the result of the philosophy of distilling the human condition," and calls the epigram a "poetic telegram." Here is a short sampling of his epigrams.
two.not2.org /hesperides/epigrams/index.htm   (404 words)

  
  epigram - HighBeam Encyclopedia
epigram a short, polished, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a satiric or paradoxical twist at the end.
The epigrams of the Latin poet Martial established the form for many later writers.
Epigram and Texas Instruments Integrate High-Speed Home Networking and ADSL Access; Epigram High Speed Home Networking Integrated Into Leading Family of TI Digital Signal Processors.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-epigram.html   (525 words)

  
 Epigram at AllExperts
The defining characteristics of an epigram were its length, often restricted to a single couplet, and its meter, almost always the elegiac couplet.
Epigram is the independent student newspaper of the University of Bristol.
The Epigram programming language is a functional programming language with dependent types designed for developing programs which include a proof of the code's correctness alongside the code.
en.allexperts.com /e/e/ep/epigram.htm   (973 words)

  
 Epigram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement.
Occasionally, simple and witty statements, though not poetical per se, may also be considered epigrams, such as one attributed to Oscar Wilde : "I can resist everything except temptation." The term is sometimes used for particularly pointed or much-quoted quotation s taken from longer works.
Anyte and the Muses - Hellenistic Epigram The contributions made to the genre of poetry by Anyte of Tegea.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Epigram.html   (313 words)

  
 Epigram
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement.
Latin epigrams could be composed as inscriptions or graffiti, such as this one from Pompeii, which exists in several versions and seems from its inexact meter to have been composed by a less educated person.
Epigram is the independent student newspaper of the University of Bristol.
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 Epigram Information
Epigrams were thus much shorter than lyric poetry which developed from forms designed for performance accompanied by musical instruments.
Latin epigrams could be composed as inscriptions or graffiti, such as this one from Pompeii, which exists in several versions and seems from its inexact meter to have been composed by a less educated person.
Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams-- his poem 85 is one of the latter.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Epigram   (823 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - epigram (Literature, General) - Encyclopedia
epigram, a short, polished, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a satiric or paradoxical twist at the end.
The epigrams of the Latin poet Martial established the form for many later writers.
In England the epigram flourished in the work of innumerable poets including Donne, Herrick, Ben Jonson, Pope, Byron, Coleridge, and Walter Savage Landor.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/epigram.html   (231 words)

  
 Kohima Epigram
The epigram, because that is what it is, was originally composed by the Greek poet Simonides (557 BC to 476 BC) who specialised in composing poems in celebration of victories and for monuments to heroic figures.
In the summer of 280 BC a small force of 300 Spartan soldiers, famous Greek warriors from the city-state of Sparta, led by their King Leonidas, successfully held the mountain pass at Themopylae, a key defense feature linking northern and southern Greece, against a large invading army under the Persian King Xerxes.
Simonides was moved to mark this single act of heroism by composing the famous epigram under the title The Three Hundred who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae (480BC) and it was subsequently translated from the Ancient Greek into English by the distinguished classical scholar J.Maxwell Edmonds of Jesus College, Cambridge.
web.ukonline.co.uk /jack.lindo/epigram.htm   (382 words)

  
 Broadcom could benefit big from Epigram buy | CNET News.com
An international standards organization is set to work with a consortium of technology companies on a standard for home networking technologies that could eventually pave the way for broader market availability of PCs, handheld computers, and other devices that can "speak" to each other over regular phone lines.
Epigram, a provider of technology for networking PCs in the home via telephone lines, could benefit in a major way.
The technology that appears to be in the lead comes from Epigram, giving it a leg up for an international standard as well.
www.news.com /Broadcom-could-benefit-big-from-Epigram-buy/2100-1033-228187.html   (890 words)

  
 ReverbNation - Epigram
Epigram began writing instrumental songs with all of these bands, and many more in mind to create a sound that stands on its own.
With each show that passes Epigram are heading in the right direction, captivating their increasingly broad audience with a fresh, mature and dynamic tonality.
Currently Epigram is gearing up in efforts to produce their first full length album scheduled for the spring of 2008.
www.reverbnation.com /epigram   (197 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Epigram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end.
This form originated in Ancient Greek poetry, whose most famous example is Simonide's epigram for the Spartan dead after the Battle of Thermopylae:
Epigrams are among the best examples of the power of poetry to compress insight and wit:
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ep/Epigram   (145 words)

  
 [minstrels] Epigram -- Martial
Martial was born in a Roman colony in Spain.
Though some of the epigrams (1,561 in all) are devoted to scenic descriptions, most are about people.
Martial made frequent use of the mordant epigram bearing a "sting" in its tail, i.e.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/856.html   (425 words)

  
 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Form: Epigram
An epigram is a short, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a quick, satirical twist at the end.
The first-century epigrams of the Roman poet Martial became the model for the modern epigram.
The epigram flourished in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England thanks to John Donne, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Alexander Pope, Lord George Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5777   (210 words)

  
 Epigram
Epigram is a dependently typed programming language and an interactive programming environment.
Epigram has got a type system which is strong enough to express the behaviour of programs, the type checker then guarantees that the program is well behaved.
Epigram is freely available this page provides access to downloads of version 1 as source or binaries for the major platforms along with relevant documentation.
www.e-pig.org   (0 words)

  
 Epigram@Everything2.com
The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc.
e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification.
www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=epigram   (278 words)

  
 Epigram
An Epigram is a very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain.
The term epigram is derived from the Greek word 'epigramma' meaning inscription.
The epigram was cultivated in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets like Ben Jonson and John Donne who wrote twenty-one English epigrams.
www.types-of-poetry.org.uk /21-epigram.htm   (346 words)

  
 Broadcom could benefit big from Epigram buy | CNET News.com
An international standards organization is set to work with a consortium of technology companies on a standard for home networking technologies that could eventually pave the way for broader market availability of PCs, handheld computers, and other devices that can "speak" to each other over regular phone lines.
Epigram, a provider of technology for networking PCs in the home via telephone lines, could benefit in a major way.
The technology that appears to be in the lead comes from Epigram, giving it a leg up for an international standard as well.
news.com.com /2100-1033-228187.html   (904 words)

  
 Best of Queer Nasty: Tuber's Handy Epigrams
Epigram 1C1: "Would you choose to be hated by half the country?"
Epigram 3D: "They used similar methods in the Victorian era to cure children of masturbation.
Epigram 9A: "Straight men like to have sex with lots of different women and they can't.
www.tripnet.com /q-nasty/best-of/epigrams.html   (926 words)

  
 epigram - Definitions from Dictionary.com
An aphorism can serve as an epigram, if it is brief.
Note: Several authors are noted for their epigrams, including Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.
Note: Two other words are similar: an epigraph is usually an inscription, as on a statue; an epitaph can be such an inscription or it can be a brief literary note commemorating a dead person.
dictionary.reference.com /search?r=2&q=epigram   (0 words)

  
 Epigram: Dependent Types for Practical Programming
Epigram is a programming platform---a language equipped with mechanical support---designed to extract that practical benefit.
The Epigram language has already been set out in "The view from the left" (McBride and McKinna, JFP 14(1)), together with its explanation in terms of an underlying dependent type theory---Luo's UTT.
In this course, we shall study not just programs in Epigram, but programming in Epigram, for dependent types do not only capture stronger properties of programs and data, they can express richer techniques for constructing them.
www.cs.ut.ee /afp04/epigram.html   (258 words)

  
 2 Signal Regiment - Origin of Kohima Epigram
The epigram, because that is what it is, was originally composed by the Greek poet Simonides (457BC to 476BC) who specialised in composing poems in celebration of victories and for monuments to heroic figures.
In the summer of 480BC a small force of 300 Spartan soldiers, famous Greek warriors of the city-state of Sparta, led by their King Leonidas, successfully held the mountain pass at Thermophylae, a key defence feature linking northern and southern Greece, against a large invading army under the Persian King Xerxes.
Simonides was moved to mark this single act of heroism by composing the famous epigram under the title "The Three Hundred Who Fell At The Battle of Thermopylae" (480BC) and it was subsequently translated from the Ancient Greek into English by the distinguished classical scholar, J Maxwell Edmons of Jesus College Cambridge.
www.army.mod.uk /royalsignals/2sigregt/kohima_epigram.htm   (430 words)

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