• quip:
a smart saying: taunt: sarcasm: ("sudden q.s," Shaksp.: "the q. modest,"
id.: "q.s, and cranks, and wanton wiles," Milton): dictērium,
n.,
Varr. in Non. 101, 3:
cf. Mart. 6, 44, Omnibus arrides, dicteria dicis in omnes: but (in purer
Lat.) dictum,
n.:
cf. haec (dicta) scilicet bona (= Fr.
bon-mots), quae salsa sint: nam ea
dicta appellantur proprio jam nomine,
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, fin.:
cf. illae ipsae (
dicta sunt ac vocantur), quas certis diebus festae licentiae dicere solebamus,
Quint. 6, 3, 16: facete dictum, Pl. Cap. 1, 2, 73:
Cic. de Off. 1, 29, 104: (
cf. petulans jocandi genus,
ib.). Also dĭcācĭtas,
Quint. 6, 3, 21:
Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 218: dĭcax argūtĭa,
Gell. 12, 2.