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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)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν δὴ κοινὰ τοῦ σώματοσ παντὸσ παθήματα, τῶν τ’ ἐπωνυμιῶν ὅσαι τοῖσ δρῶσιν αὐτὰ γεγόνασι, σχεδὸν εἴρηται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 308:1)

Synonyms

  1. called by the name of

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

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