The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.

This epithet was given to Apollo in parts of Gaul, Northern Italy and Noricum ( part of modern Austria ).

An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as god of healing and, possibly, of physicians.

His oracular shrine in Abae in Phocis, where he bore the toponymic epithet Abaeus (, Apollon Abaios ) was important enough to be consulted by Croesus ( Herodotus, 1. 46 ).

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

His place of origin was not Thrace as the epithet Thrax denotes, but probably Alexandria.

The theonym Freyja was thus an epithet in origin, replacing a personal name that is now unattested.

He was appointed grand penitentiary shortly after election of Pope Innocent VI in December 1352 and given the epithet " Angel of Peace ", a title which quickly became a sad misnomer as his future actions in the Papal States would drench the Italian countryside in blood from the River Po until the Garigliano.

An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet " the Fowler " because he was allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king.

The sequence of terms then began with Bodhisattvayāna, which was given the epithet Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ").

Iraq, known in Classical Antiquity as Mesopotamia, was home to the oldest civilizations in the world, with a cultural history of over 10, 000 years, hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization.

After his death in 407 ( or, according to some sources, during his life ) he was given the Greek epithet chrysostomos, meaning " golden mouthed " in English, and Anglicized to Chrysostom.

It was a populist / producerist epithet, carrying an implicit accusation that the people it described were insulated from all negative consequences of their programs purported to benefit the poor, and that the costs and consequences of such programs would be borne in the main by working class or lower middle class people who were not so poor as to be beneficiaries themselves.

The commentator Servius's use of the passage ( in R. Maltby, Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies, Leeds ) asserts, under the entry portus, that the epithet was derived:

This epithet repeated a comparison that had been made from Smith's earliest career, one that was not intended at the time to be complimentary.

He was also associated with the epithet Khenti-Amentiu, which means " Foremost of the Westerners " — a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead.

About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.

He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.

The epithet parthénos (), whose origin is also unclear, meant " maiden, girl ", but also " virgin, unmarried woman " and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet " rosy-fingered " ( rhododactylos ), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia:

Héktōr, or Éktōr as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as " he who holds together ".

A common epithet of Poseidon is Gaiēochos, " Earth-shaker ," an epithet which is also identified in Linear B tablets.

Poseidon also had a close association with horses, known under the epithet Poseidon Hippios.

The term socialist has also been used by some politicians on the political right as an epithet against certain individuals who do not consider themselves to be socialists, and against policies that are not considered socialist by their proponents.

The Book of Revelation also refers to " the deceiver ," from which is derived the common epithet " the great deceiver.

They had been engraved with the name " Faunus ", and each also had a different epithet after the god's name.

Frederick II soon earned the epithet " the Quarrelsome " as a result of his ongoing disputes with the kings of Hungary and Bohemia and with the Holy Roman Emperor, also named Frederick II.

Cunt is also used as a derogatory epithet referring to people of either sex.

It can also be translated in far less flattering terms, and it was suggested by Adam Hochschild that while Stanley understood it as an heroic epithet, his Congolese companions understood it in a mocking and pejorative tone.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

It is also said the name derived from the European corruption of " Haarari " (" He does not sleep "), the epithet of the chief whose citadel was located in the area known today as the Kopje ( pronounced " Koppie ").

Reynolds also talks about Caesar and his “ Colossus ” epithet, which he points out has its obvious connotations of power and manliness, but also lesser known connotations of an outward glorious front and inward chaos.

The current Patriarch ( since 1991 ) is Bartholomew I who has become better-known than any of his predecessors in modern times as a result of his numerous pastoral and other visits to numerous countries in five continents and his setting up of a permanent bureau at the EU headquarters, in addition to enhancing the long-established Patriarchal Centre in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland and also his ecological pursuits which have won him the epithet of " the Green Patriarch.

In the folk poems and prayers he is also given the epithet Ylijumala ( English: Overgod ), probably in reference to his status as the most highly regarded god and on the other hand his traditional domain in the heavens.

Generally held to date from Magnus and Harald's short co-rule, depicting Magnus who had precedence, but also speculated as Harald's alone, with Magnus as an epithet adopted after his death.

Cavalier also started out as a pejorative term — the first proponents used it to compare members of the Royalist party with Spanish Caballeros who had abused Dutch Protestants during the reign of Elizabeth I — but unlike Roundhead, Cavalier was embraced by those who were the target of the epithet and used by them to describe themselves.

Homer also calls Telemachus by the patronymic epithet " Odysseus ' son ".