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Show Original Epigram. An epigranj, In Its primary signification, signifi-cation, was nothing moro nor less than, an Inscription. It was "something "some-thing written" to mark a spot or an event; It was tho form of words attached at-tached to an altar, or a monument, or an Image, to show whoso Imago or monument or altar It was. If you con-secrato con-secrato a secular elm to Pan, you pinned an epigram on tho hark to an nounco that fact; if you presented to tho friend an amethyst cup engraved en-graved with a figure of Bacchus, you ombodied In an epigram your sentiments. senti-ments. Harper's Magazine. O |