Gnomic /(?)/

Gnom·ic

Gnomic

a.
  1. Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
    A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry.
    — G. R. Lewes.

Phrases & Compounds
Gnomic Poets
Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.