A small ancient Greek stringed musical instrument, a variant or diminutive form of the epigonion.
From epigonion + -eion (diminutive suffix). Greek musical instrument term from antiquity.
The epigoneion was an ancient Greek harp-like instrument with so many strings that later musicians probably looked like epigones trying to imitate the original harp makers!
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