He tried to make epigrams all the time, and I got so nervous, expecting them, you know, that I spilt the tea-and he made an epigram about that!"
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He may have combined in these libelli some of the elegiac epigrams with his iambics and phalaecians, just as Martial, who regarded him as his master, did afterwards.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
If the oratorical tastes and training of the Romans make the absence of these last qualities perceptible in much both of their prose and verse, we feel the charm of their presence in the Letters of Cicero, the lighter poems of Catullus, the Epistles of Horace, the epigrams of Martial: and it was owing to the social and intellectual position of Terence that this secret of combining consummate literary grace with conversational ease and spontaneity was discovered.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar