epistles
Ancient written messages
Epistles are letters, especially formal or literary ones.
The word carries a slightly elevated or archaic tone, often used humorously to describe correspondence: I finally answered all her epistles.
In religious contexts, epistles refers specifically to the letters in the New Testament written by apostles to early Christian communities. (Capitalized Epistles typically refers to the biblical letters.)
Exchanged written communication
- missivesFormal written messages
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- communiquesFormal official announcements
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
official · proclamations · open letters · addressed · salutation · valediction
Male name from antiquity
- OvidAncient Roman poet
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
- PlinyRoman scholar-writer
- PopeCatholic Church's supreme leader
satire · moral philosophy · poetic form · addressed · dedicatory · humanist · Renaissance · neoclassical
correspondence
Exchanged written communication
- missivesFormal written messages
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- communiquesFormal official announcements
letters · official · proclamations · open letters · addressed · salutation · valediction
Horace
Male name from antiquity
Pope · satire · moral philosophy · poetic form · addressed · dedicatory · humanist · Renaissance · neoclassical · verse
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
- Greek inscriptionsstelae, stele, epitaphs, dedications, decrees
- Latin scholarshipLatin poetry, philology, classical texts, paleography, lyric poetry
- manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
- Patristic writingshomilies
- Quakerismthee, thou, thy, thine, inner light
epistlesjottings
Hastily recorded notes
text messages · texts · memos · scrawls · postcards
epistlesone-liners
Brief comedic remarks
snippets · fragments · bullet points · blurbs · sound bites
epistlesoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
speeches · conversations · sermons · proclamations · phone calls