Some elegies could be quite short, but only public epigrams were longer than ten lines. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. He also characterised Roman life in epigrams and poems. Most of the Roman epigrams were inscriptions or graffiti. He was stimulated by the concise and penetrating style of these poems and epigrams. He was capable of arresting imagery and memorable statements in the form of terse epigrams. The Romans were also famous for their oral tradition, poetry, drama and epigrams. Roman epigrams owe much to their Greek predecessors and contemporaries. No. 1534 is a typical example of her eleven poetic epigrams. Furthermore, the play is full of epigrams and paradoxes. Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, his piquant epigrams and its effective irony. Poets known for their epigrams whose work has been lost include Cornificia. Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, its piquant epigrams and its effective irony. Misers are frequent figures of fun in the epigrams of the Greek Anthology. After 1910 she mostly wrote the epigrams and memoirs for which she is better known.