[f. prec. (or f. Gr. ἐποποι-ός) + -IST.] One who writes epic poetry.
1840. Tait’s Mag., VII. 411. The historian is merely a more modern name for the Epopœist.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 7. Those who are familiar with the productions of the great Ionic Epopœist.
