epigrammatist

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This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2015

"Rus mihi dulce sub urbe est," sang the Roman epigrammatist Martial in the ist century A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair."

From Time Magazine Archive

He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had an astonishing memory, was brilliant as an epigrammatist, was a great reader and a most genial companion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various