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Epos  n.  An epic.






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"Epos" Quotes from Famous Books



... these studies, he published his Indian Library, (2 vols., Bonn, 1820-26); he also set up a press for printing the great Sanscrit work, the Rmjana (Bonn, 1825). He also edited the Sanscrit text, with a Latin translation, of the Bhagavad-Gita, an episode of the great Indian Epos, the Mahbhrata (Bonn, 1829). About this period his Oriental studies took, him to France, and afterwards to England, where, in London and in the college libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, and the East India College at Hailesbury, he carefully examined the various collections of Oriental ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black



Words linked to "Epos" :   poetry, Iliad, poem, epic poem, odyssey, Aeneid, rhapsody, heroic meter, chanson de geste, Divina Commedia, verse, heroic



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