0 used to describe something spoken or written that is short, mysterious, and not easily understood, but often seems wise:
Peter is always coming out with gnomic utterances/pronouncements.
They too condensed insights into maxims, riddles and gnomic sayings, or epigrams about prudent living and shrewd, insightful public decisions.
The poems in question belong to a range of genres, including heroic epic, gnomic verse, catalogue verse and biblical history.
The first one, they argue, is 'neutral' instead of 'open' and gnomic instead of future, while the second one is 'closed'.
What, if anything, does that opaque and gnomic sentence mean?
The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom.
The gnomic aorist is regarded as a primary tense in determining the mood of verbs in subordinate clauses.
Gnomic wisdom is also a characteristic of a riddle poem, and is present in the poem's closing sentiment (lines 52-53).
To the gnomic core of the poem, other fragments and poems dealing with wisdom and proverbs accreted over time.
