Now somewhat rare. Also 8–9 -pée. [a. F. épopée, ad. mod.L. epopœia; q.v.]

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  1.  An epic poem (= EPIC B.). Usually the epic poem generically; the epic species of poetry.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneid, Ded. Both of them abhor strong Metaphors, in which the Epopee delights.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 23. The action of the drama or epopee … must be one and entire.

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1823.  trans. Sismondi’s Lit. Eur. (1846), I. xvi. 465. The discovery of the comic epopee…. The origin of the mock epopee.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, II. xxi. 234. The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee.

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  2.  transf.

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1846.  Grote, Greece (1862), II. iii. 54. They may be said to constitute a sort of historical epopee.

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1855.  Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. iii. 163. The Imitatio Christi is an epopee of the internal history of the human soul.

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