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Show Original Epigram. An epigram. In Its primary signification, signifi-cation, was uothliiK more nor le.ss than an iiisciiptlou. It was "something "some-thing wiltten" to mark n spot or an event; It was tlio foim of words attached at-tached to an altar, or a monument, or an linage, to .show whose imago or monument or nltnr It was If jou consecrate, con-secrate, a secular elm to Pan, jmt pinned an epigram on the bark to announce an-nounce that fact, If jou picscnted to the fileml nn amethyst cup engraved en-graved with n tlgiito of Hacchus, jou embodied In nu nplgnim our sentiments senti-ments Harper's .Magazine. |