I.dat. plur. epigrammatis, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15.—Gen. plur.: “epigrammatōn,” Mart. 1 praef.; 1, 2; “-matum,” Suet. Aug. 85), = ἐπίγραμμα.
I. An inscription; on the base of a statue, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57; “on an offering,” Nep. Paus. 1, 3; “on tombstones,” Petr. 115 fin.; “as a brand,” id. ib. 103, 4.—
II. An epigram, Cic. Tusc. 1, 34, 84; id. Arch. 10, 25; Quint. 1, 5, 20; Suet. Caes. 73 et saep.; so the Epigrammata of the poet Martial.
