epigonus
Americannoun
plural
epigoniExample Sentences
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Epigonus was also a skilled citharist and played with his bare hands without plectrum.4 Unfortunately we have no record of when Epigonus lived.
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Noetus, a Smyrnæan by birth, a reckless babbler and trickster, introduced this heresy, which originated with Epigonus, and was adopted by Cleomenes, and has thus continued to this day among his successors.
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He drove the king's party also out of Chios, and he gave the people of Kolophon freedom by seizing Epigonus, their tyrant.
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Out of Chios he himself drove the king's party, and set the Colophonians at liberty, having seized Epigonus the tyrant, who oppressed them.
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Wagner is a thorough-going decadent, an off-shoot, an epigonus, not a progonus.
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