...have become a proverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such. * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...like bees, have all— A sting, and honey, and a body emaIl. PEOVEEBS WILL BE CONCISE. 17 As respects also shortness, it is quite certain that a good proverb...

...have become a proverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such. * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...exigui ;" which may be indifferently rendered thus : — As respects also shortness, it is quite certain that a good proverb will be short, as short,...

...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's sO happy epigram upon...exigui;" which may be indifferently rendered thus: — fails, as I have said ; it indeed errs in both defect and excess. Thus, in demanding shortness,...

...have become a proverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such. * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...'• . "Omne epigramma sit instar apis ; sit aculeus illii Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui;" which may be indifferently rendered thus : — As respects...

...sit instar apis; sit aculeus ¡Hi, Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exiguij" which he thus renders: " Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all — A sting, and honey, and a body small." t Mr. Trench believes the explanation of the word " proverb" to lie in the confidence with which a man...

...apis ; sit aculeus illi, iimt sua mella, ait et corporis exigui." Aptly rendered by Mr. Trench, — " Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, — A sting, and honey, and a body small." Not wholly approving the alliterative terms given above to define the ingredients of a proverb, Mr....

...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...epigramma sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi, Sint sua melln, sit et corporis exigui ;" which may be indifferently rendered thus: — fails, as I have said...

...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...epigramma sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi, Sint sn;i niella, sit et corporis exigui;" which may be indifferently rendered thus: — fails, as I have...

...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...parallel to that which has been said above : — "Omne epigvamma sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi, Sint sun mella, eit et corporis exigui ;" which may be...

...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...everything runs exactly parallel to that which has been eaid above: — "Omne epigramma sit instar apis; sit aculeus ill!, Sint sun mella, sit et eorporis...