epigonus
Americannoun
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epigoni
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Wagner is a thorough-going decadent, an off-shoot, an epigonus, not a progonus.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed."
From Time Magazine Archive
But after the newly opened fields have been exhausted the epigoni can do little but recombine, often in fantastic ways, the old elements; public taste turns from them and demands something new.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
It is refreshing to turn from the epigoni of the so-called Roman school to masters in whom the flame of the Renaissance still burned brightly.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
The victors of Constantinople are but the epigoni of a mighty contest.
From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin
This is the inveterate tendency that in other ages has made pedagogic scribes, Talmudists, epigoni, and sophists, who have magnified the letter and lost the spirit.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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