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Epigonus was also a skilled citharist and played with his bare hands without plectrum.4 Unfortunately we have no record of when Epigonus lived.

And as soon as he had thus dismissed the physicians, he caused a barrel of wine of Grave to be placed at his bed’s head, resolving to see the bottom of it before he died; and carried himself so valiantly in this encounter, that he drank it up to the lees, fulfilling literally the contents of this 100 quaint epigram of Epigonus upon a frog, who falling into a pipe of wine, cried out, φεύ τινες ὕδωρ πίνουσι μανίην σώφρονα μαινόμενοι.

Now a certain Epigonus became his minister and pupil, and this person during his sojourn in Rome spread his godless opinion.…

Noetus, a Smyrnæan by birth, a reckless babbler and trickster, introduced this heresy, which originated with Epigonus, and was adopted by Cleomenes, and has thus continued to this day among his successors.

He drove the king's party also out of Chios, and he gave the people of Kolophon freedom by seizing Epigonus, their tyrant.