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ἐπέων (epeon)

ἐπέων is an Ancient Greek form of ἔπος, meaning “word, speech, epic line”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.170: … περβαλλόντως· διὸ καὶ Τίμων περὶ αὐτοῦ φησιν οὕτως· τίς δʼ οὗτος κτίλος ὣς ἐπιπωλεῖται στίχας ἀνδρῶν, μωλύτης ἐπέων φίλος Ἄσσιος, ὅλμος ἄτολμος; Καὶ σκωπτόμενος δʼ ὑπὸ τῶν συμμαθητῶν ἠνείχετο καὶ ὄνος ἀκούων προσεδέχετο, λέγω …

All forms of ἔπος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.