Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπίγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίγονος ἐπίγονον

Structure: ἐπιγον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pigi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born besides, offspring, posterity, a breed
  2. the afterborn
  3. the Successors

Examples

  • μένει κτέανα δ’ ἐπιγόνοισ, δι’ ὧν αἰνομόροισ, δι’ ὧν νεῖκοσ ἔβα καὶ θανάτου τέλοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • ὡσ τοῖσ ἐπιγόνοισ παισὶ μυρίοισ οὖσι τὰσ δαπάνασ καὶ παιδείασ μισθοὺσ ἅπασιν ἐχορήγει. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, 68)

Synonyms

  1. the Successors

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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