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ἐπωνύμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπωνύμιος ἐπωνύμιᾱ ἐπωνύμιον

Structure: ἐπωνυμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for e)pw/numos

Sense

  1. called by the name of

Examples

  • "ἀποκτείνασ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ τὸν Ἀρχίλοχον ἐκαλεῖτο Καλλώνδησ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἦν δ’ αὐτῷ Κόραξ ἐπωνύμιον. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 17 5:2)
  • ὁ δ’ Ὡράτιοσ τὸν Κόκλιον ἐπωνύμιον ἔσχεν ἐν πολέμῳ τῶν ὀμμάτων θάτερον ἐκ κοπείσ· (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 16 5:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτῷ Πύρροσ ἦν παιδικὸν ἐπωνύμιον. (Plutarch, chapter 1 2:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ ἀποκτείνασ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ τὸν Ἀρχίλοχον ἐκαλεῖτο Καλλώνδησ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἦν δ’ αὐτῷ Κόραξ ἐπωνύμιον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section42)
  • ἄρτι δ’ αὐτῷ τὰσ πύλασ ἐξεληλυθότι συναντᾷ κατὰ δαίμονα παραγινόμενοσ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ὁ Κολλατῖνοσ ἀπὸ στρατοπέδου, τῶν κατεσχηκότων τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ κακῶν οὐδὲν εἰδὼσ καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Λεύκιοσ Ιοὔνιοσ, ᾧ Βροῦτοσ ἐπωνύμιον ἦν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 67 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. called by the name of

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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