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LNS

Epigonus, Epigonī

Epigoni

Ἐπίγονοι

Mostly Plural

noun (m., 2^nd declension)

the After-born
The sons of the seven heroes who went together against Thebes
The children of the soldiers of Alexander the Great by Asiatic women

Abbreviations

Epigoni, ōrum, m., = Ἐπίγονοι, the After-born. The sons of the seven heroes who went together against Thebes, Hyg. Fab. 71; as the name of a tragedy of Aeschylus, translated into Latin by Attius, Cic. Opt. Gen. 6, 18; id. Tusc. 2, 25, 60; id. Off. 1, 31, 114.

— The children of the soldiers of Alexander the Great by Asiatic women, Just. 12, 4 fin.