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ἐπιγονή , ἡ,
A.increase, growth, ἐ. λαμβάνειν become larger, Plu.2.506f; “μείζονος κακίας” Luc.Tim.3; ἐνιαυτοῦ αἰγῶν κτλ. ἐ. the year's produce, Plu.Fab.4; τὴν ἐ. μακαρίαν [γίνεσθαι] SIG695.48 (ii B.C.); “θρεμμάτων” Ph.2.234; “ζῴων” Porph.Abst.1.16; ἐξ ἐπιγονῆς ἐπιγεγενημένοι “πῶλοι” BGU353.14 (ii A.D.).
2.. offspring, breed, “ἵππων” D.S. 4.15; of men, LXX 2 Ch.31.16.
II.. in Egypt, descendants of foreign military settlers, Μακεδών, Ἰουδαῖος τῆς ἐ, Wilcken Chr.241 (iii B.C.), Mitteis Chr.21.13 (iii B.C.), etc.; later apptly. used in legal fictions of a category of persons, Πέρσης τῆς ἐ. PStrassb.83.12 (ii B.C.), BGU 1134 (i B.C./i A.D.), etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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