📚 adj • entry_id 23719
gnomic
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gnómico • nómico
Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men.
Old English culture was threaded through with riddles, cryptograms, gnomic verses, charms and riddling modes of speech such as litotes, just as Modern English culture is (if you wi…
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