Crossword-Solution: EPYLLION
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPYLLION (5)
Three of these are pieces in hexameter verse, belonging broadly to the class of the _epyllion,_ or "little epic," which was invented as a convenient term to include short poems in the epic metre that were not definitely pastorals either in subject or treatment, and which the Alexandrian poets, headed by Theocritus, had cultivated with much assiduity and considerable success.
Not only has she brought together for the first time in one volume most of the extant Elizabethan minor epics, but in so doing, she has hastened the recognition that the minor epic, or "epyllion" as it has often been called in modern times,[1] is a distinctive literary genre as deserving of study as the sonnet, the pastoral, or the verse satire.
Other rhetorical devices cultivated in the epyllion are the long apostrophe, and the sentence or wise saying.
Whether or not there is classical authority for use of the term "epyllion," though a significant point of scholarship, is not the main issue here.
Either the term "minor epic" or "epyllion" is satisfactory, provided its referent is clear, and accurately described.