ἐπίγονος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[born besides]], of superfetation, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Vict.</span>1.31</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span>. as Subst., [[ἐπίγονοι]], [[οἱ]], [[offspring]], [[posterity]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>903</span> (lyr.); [[breed]], of bees, prob. in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>7.34</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. <b class="b3">οἱ Ἐπίγονοι</b> [[the Afterborn]], sons of the chiefs who fell in the first war against Thebes, title of Cyclic Epic ascribed to Homer, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.32</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>8.42</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.4.66</span>,etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span>. of the Heraclids, <span class="bibl">Hecat.30J.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span>. [[descendants]] of the successors to Alexander's dominions, <b class="b3">περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τῶν διαδόχων καὶ ἐ</b>., title of work by Nymphis, Suid. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[Νύμφις]], cf. <span class="bibl">D.S.1.3</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.15.3.24</span>; <b class="b3">τῷ Ἐπιγόνου κούρῳ</b>, of Antigonus Gonatas, <span class="title">BMus.Inscr.</span> 797.8 (Cnidus). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span>. corps of barbarian youths in Alexander's army, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">An.</span>7.6.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">e</span>. in Egypt, [[belonging to the]] ἐπιγονή ''ΙΙ'', <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span> 6.588.7</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>14.70</span> (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span>. [[after-born]], i.e. [[born]] [[after]] or [[besides the presumptive heir]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>740c</span>, <span class="bibl">929d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span>. [[issue of]] [[second marriage]], <span class="bibl">Poll.3.25</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[ἐπίγονος]], ον [[ἐπιγίγνομαι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[born]] [[besides]]:—as Subst., ἐπίγονοι, οἱ, [[offspring]], [[posterity]], Aesch.: a [[breed]] [of bees], Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> οἱ Ἐπίγονοι the afterborn, [[sons]] of the chiefs who [[fell]] in the [[first]] war [[against]] [[Thebes]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the Successors to [[Alexander]]'s dominions.