Example sentences from the Web for epyllion

• This is not in any sense a lyric poem, but an epyllion, or little epic.

  A History of Roman Literature|Harold North Fowler

• Other rhetorical devices cultivated in the epyllion are the long apostrophe, and the sentence or wise saying.

  Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)|Dunstan Gale

• Either the term "minor epic" or "epyllion" is satisfactory, provided its referent is clear, and accurately described.

  Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)|Dunstan Gale

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