epyllion

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From Ancient Greek ἐπύλλιον (epullion). The term was first used in the nineteenth century.

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And what does it mean to write in forms, such as epic and lyric and epyllion, used by others?

swoonrocket jms 2007
In verse writing he was of Catullus 'school, composing at least one epyllion, besides lyric verse.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
The two types of the “plain” style were employed in more modest poems of literature, both, in prose and in such poetry as comedy, the epyllion, in pastoral verse, and the like.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
It was at about this same time, 48 B.C., that Vergil began to write the Ciris, a romantic epyllion which deserves far more attention than it has received, not only as an invaluable document for the history of the poet's early development, but as a poem possessing in some passages at least real artistic merit.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
In the sixty-fourth poem, however, the epyllion which the author of the

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
Three of these are pieces in hexameter verse, belonging broadly to the class of the _epyllion, _ or

Latin Literature 1902