"Gnomical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gentle flow of simple epic narrative; he relies on the interest of the story as a whole, rather than on his power of presenting situations. Another element, always present in the longer odes of victory, is that which may be called the "gnomic." Here, again, there is a contrast between the two poets. Pindar packs his [Greek: gnomai], his maxims or moral sentiments, into terse and sometimes obscure epigrams; he utters them in a didactic ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... popular gnomic poet who lived in the first half of the 13th century. His fame rests on his Bescheidenheit, which means the 'wisdom' or 'sagacity' that comes of experience. The book is a miscellaneous collection of proverbial and aphoristic ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... is used to denote a general truth, i.e. something true not merely in the present but at all times ('Gnomic ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett |
