||Ep"o*cha (?), n. [L.] See Epoch. J. Adams.
Ep"o*chal (?), a. Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.
Ep"ode (?), n. [L. epodos, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, adj., singing to, sung or said after, fr. &?; to sing to; 'epi` upon, to + &?; to sing: cf. F. épode. See Ode.] (Poet.) (a) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. (b) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.
E*pod"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.
{ Ep"o*nym, Ep"o*nyme } (?), n. [Cf. F. éponyme. See Eponymous.] 1. The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
2. A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.
Ep`o*nym"ic (?), a. Same as Eponymous.
Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates.