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 ").

As Artemis's twin, Apollo had the epithet Didymaeus ( ; Διδυμαιος, Didumaios, from δίδυμος, " twin ").

As god of music and arts, Apollo had the epithet Musagetes ( ; Doric Μουσαγέτας, Mousāgetās ) or Musegetes ( ; Μουσηγέτης, Mousēgetēs, from Μούσα, " Muse ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ").

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.

In this line of interpretation, Cernach is taken as an epithet with a wide semantic field — " angular ; victorious ; bearing a prominent growth " — and Conall is seen as " the same figure " as the ancient Cernunnos.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

He received that epithet due to the unfortunate way his reign ended ; but at the beginning he acted as a skillful and talented ruler.

The generic epithet translates as ' wandering about ', the specific indicates that it is migratory ; the Passenger Pigeon's movements were not only seasonal, as with other birds, they would mass in whatever location was most productive and suitable for breeding.

Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph of eight hexameters over his tomb ; the epithet " martyr " contained in them is not to be

* an ' open compound ' construction with a suffix-e, for definite noun phrases with an epithet ;

Physically, Edward was an imposing man ; at 6 feet 2 inches ( 1. 88 m ) he towered over most of his contemporaries, and hence perhaps his epithet " longshanks ".

Old Coptic texts employ many such words, phrases and epithets ; for example, the word '( Who is ) in ( His ) Mountain ', is an epithet of Anubis.

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.

Because the nature of what is erotic is fluid, early definitions of the term attempted to conceive eroticism as some form of sensual or romantic love or as the human sex drive ( libido ); for example, the Encyclopédie of 1755 states that the erotic " is an epithet which is applied to everything with a connection to the love of the sexes ; one employs it particularly to characterize ... a dissoluteness, an excess ".

Harald was therefore induced to take a vow not to cut nor comb his hair until he was sole king of Norway, and that ten years later, he was justified in trimming it ; whereupon he exchanged the epithet " Shockhead " or " Tanglehair " for the one by which he is usually known.

When Melkor returned to Middle-earth from Valinor, now bearing the epithet Morgoth, he was attacked by Ungoliant, a spider-like creature ; and his piercing scream drew the Balrogs out of hiding to his rescue.

* Aganippis is a name used by Ovid as an epithet of Hippocrene ; its meaning however is not quite clear.

Ceres was thus the patron goddess of Rome's written laws ; the poet Vergil later calls her legifera Ceres ( Law-bearing Ceres ), a translation of Demeter's Greek epithet, thesmophoros.

In Greek mythology, Panoptes ( Ancient Greek: Πανόπτης ; English translation: " all eyes ") was an epithet for both Helios and Argus.

In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.

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 ).

Some authorities see in the name " Druze " a descriptive epithet, derived from Arabic dâresah (" those who study ").

The epithet would seem to describe the poor quality of advice which Æthelred received throughout his reign, presumably from those around him, specifically from the royal council, known as the Witan.

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.

Scott appears to have taken the name from an anonymous manuscript – written in 1600 – that employs " Locksley " as an epithet for Robin Hood.

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.

In the Shaivite tradition, the Shri Rudram ( Sanskrit श ् र ि र ु द ् रम ्), to which the Chamakam ( चमकम ्) is added by scriptural tradition, is a Hindu stotra dedicated to Rudra ( an epithet of Shiva ), taken from the Yajurveda ( TS 4. 5, 4. 7 ).

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.

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.

A riff-laden masterpiece that employed a playful growl he got from a Bob Hope movie, the epithet Orbison uttered when he was unable to hit a note (" Mercy!

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

The specific epithet marsupialis ( Latin: marsupium, " pocket ") derives from a pocket-like skin flap which extends along the middle of the back from the tail onwards.

In Athens itself, he lost favour by building a sanctuary of Artemis, with the epithet Aristoboulë (" of good counsel ") near his home, a blatant reference to his own role in delivering Greece from the Persian invasion.

Its generic name is derived from the Latin Fratercula " little brother ", and the specific epithet cirrhata means " tufted ".

" Also, the song " You Know What You Are " from the 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey by industrial metal group Ministry repeats the song title ( a portion of Tuco's final epithet at Blondie ) as a background sample.

However, Deng stated that the revolutionary side of Maoism should be considered separate from the governance side, leading to his famous epithet that Mao was " 70 % good, 30 % bad ".

The epithet " yellow " describes the perennial color of the muddy water in the lower course of the river, arising from loess being carried downstream.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas.

" " Paeon " was also the name of a divine physician and an epithet of Apollo.

Nuada was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who was disqualified from kingship after losing his hand ( or arm ) in battle, but restored after he was given a working silver one by the physician Dian Cecht and the wright Creidhne ( gaining the epithet Airgetlám, " silver hand "), and later a flesh and blood one by Dian Cecht's son Miach.