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He would have looked very well as a priest: the shabby, gnomic variety one sees in small Italian towns.

Dyer uses this kind of gnomic, prophetic, baffling language all the time, and it can be trying and vague.

That dragons dwelt in mounds was a common Germanic belief, to which the Cottonian Gnomic verses testify.

Reference should have been given to the Exeter Gnomic Verses, 89 ff.

The moralizing of Bacchylides is rather an utterance of quiet meditation, sometimes recalling the strain of Ionian gnomic elegy.

Another element, always present in the longer odes of victory, is that which may be called the "gnomic."

The gnomic verses of Theognis were certainly sung; so were the satires of Archilochus and the romantic reveries of Mimnermus.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gnomic, such as: brusque, concise, cryptic, curt, elliptical, and incisive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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