Definition of Epigonus

1. epigone [n -NI] - See also: epigone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigonus

epiglottitis
epiglycanin
epignathous
epignathus
epigon
epigonation
epigonations
epigone
epigones
epigoni
epigonic
epigonism
epigonisms
epigonous
epigons
epigonus (current term)
epigram
epigrammatic
epigrammatical
epigrammatically
epigrammatism
epigrammatisms
epigrammatist
epigrammatists
epigrammatize
epigrammatized
epigrammatizer
epigrammatizers
epigrammatizes
epigrammatizing

Literary usage of Epigonus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"epigonus is known from three inscriptions at least and probably from five ... 88) that epigonus distinguished himself by a statue of a trumpeter and by a ..."

2. The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence by Adolf Holm (1902)
"It is clear that if Antigonus is called son of epigonus in it, the presumption that epigonus ia the real name is the most obvious one, firstly, because such ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"His excommunication in Asia Minor seems to have taken place after the entire controversy had been settled at Rome. epigonus (d. ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Ie) that epigonus brought the instrument from Alexandria and played upon it with the fingers of both hands, not only using it as an accompaniment to the ..."

5. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1897)
"epigonus is of still more interest; for Pliny describes two works of his, a trumpeter and a child, whose caress of its slain mother was a sight to move ..."

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