An old epigram in vogue at the end of last century ran thus:

This suggestion is contained in an old epigram:

Looking up at the stars as I tramped homeward, I could but remember an old epigram:-

She was bringing him up with the ability, as the old epigram had it, to resist everything but temptation.

The Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog terminates in a stroke taken from the old epigram of Demodocus-

From Frejus Smollett proceeds to Toulon, repeating the old epigram that "the king of France is greater at Toulon than at Versailles."

"Omne ignotum pro magnifico" is the old epigram of Tacitus.