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is from the two Greek words epi-deʹmos (upon the people), a disease that attacks a number of people at once, either from bad air, bad drainage, or other similar cause.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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