proper noun
Ĕpĭgŏni
Meaning
- the After-born.
Ĕpĭgŏni, ōrum, m., = Ἐπίγονοι,
I. the After-born.
I. 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.—II. The children of the soldiers of Alexander the Great by Asiatic women, Just. 12, 4 fin.