| He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams. |
| My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts. |
| He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams. |
| On the formal level, its massive length and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams. |
| He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns. |
| He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success. |
