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Posted By: mfa Post deleted by mfa - 12/27/00 07:38 PM
Posted By: tsuwm Re: epurate - 12/27/00 09:37 PM
in addition to epuration, there is this worthless entry:

Epyllion, a literary type popular from Theocritus to Ovid, was a narrative poem of about 100 to 600 hexameters; the subject was usually taken from the life of a mythical hero or heroine, the love motif being prominent in later epyllia.

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