Translation for 'epigram' from English to Russian

epigram

эпиграмма {ж}лит.

• A "xenia" epigram is an epigram commemorating hospitality or attached to a gift, sometimes represented in a "xenia" mosaic.
• This phrase became an epigram of journalism.
• The first line of the epigram was used as the title of the short story "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We…" by German Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll.
• An epigram on the pedestal of an obelisk at the hippodrome of Constantinople records his success in setting the obelisk upright.
• Some attributed the whole epigram to Simonides.

• "Nugae" was the subject of an epigram of John Owen.
• The fourth and final epigram, Balbilla dedicates to her parents and grandfathers.
• Hungarian poet Ferenc Kölcsey wrote his famous epigram ("Huszt") about the ruins of the castle in 1831.
• Obsopoeus contributed a 30-line epigram to the "Sylva Bibliocorum Nominum" of Andreas Althamer (1530).
• was a writer of ancient Greece who was the author of an epigram on the great ship of Hiero II of Syracuse, which appears to have been built about 220 BCE.

• The rhyme scheme is always AABBCC (an epigram or paired rhyme).
• John Asen's portrait was accompanied by an epigram (no less than twelve lines long), which was originally inscribed on the icon's frame, but was later copied to the icon itself.
• "Sweet and Sour Milk" by Nuruddin Farah: the novel opens with an epigram quoting from Mary Webster's poetry.
• The Latin epigram may be rendered in English: AN ISLAND RESOLUTE OF PURPOSE REMEMBERS RESOLUTE MEN.
• The Epigrams are thought to antedate the Pseudo-Herodotian "Life of Homer" which was apparently written around the epigrams to create appropriate context.

• Lollius Bassus is the author of ten epigrams in the Greek Anthology.