the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.

The earliest attested name is the Hittite Assuwa a region in central-western Anatolia which seems to be connected with the Mycenean Greek epithet a-si-wi-ja in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.

He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet " the Great ".

" Anaxarchus is said to have possessed " fortitude and contentment in life ," which earned him the epithet eudaimonikos (" fortunate "), which may imply that he held the end of life to be eudaimonia.

He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet, " King of the Wild Frontier ".

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 ).

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

Lilium is the genus, and columbianum the specific epithet.

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

Donald's reputation is suggested by the epithet dasachtach, a word used of violent madmen and mad bulls, attached to him in the 11th-century writings of Flann Mainistrech, echoed by the his description in the Prophecy of Berchan as " the rough one who will think relics and psalms of little worth ".

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.

Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος Delphinios, " the Delphinian ".

The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

Tauropolos is an ancient epithet attached to Hecate, Artemis and even Athena.

This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.

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.

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

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

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

van Windekens, offers " young cow, heifer ", which is consonant with Hera's common epithet βοῶπις ( boōpis, cow-eyed ).

Her familiar Homeric epithet Boôpis, is always translated " cow-eyed ", for, like the Greeks of Classical times, its other natural translation " cow-faced " or at least " of cow aspect " is rejected.

The earliest Mahāyāna texts often use the term Mahāyāna as an epithet and synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, but the term Hīnayāna is comparatively rare in early texts, and is usually not found at all in the earliest translations.

Contrary to the common mainstream academic and popular use of the term, Communist states have sometimes been referred to as " fascist ", typically as an epithet.

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.

In recent years, shows like Greg the Bunny and Puppets Who Kill have portrayed puppets as an oppressed minority, for which the politically-correct term is " fabricated-Americans " and the racial epithet is " sock ".

At times, the term " traitor " has been levelled as a political epithet, regardless of any verifiable treasonable action.

Allegations that a group is neo-fascist may be hotly contested, especially if the term is used as a political epithet.

The term " Uncle Tom " is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race.

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 ".

This term is controversial because it was reappropriated only two decades ago from its use as an anti-gay epithet.

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.

Its specific epithet, the Latin term notabilis, means " noteworthy ".

While on the one hand assigning to Old Latin the term pre-classical and by implication the term post-classical ( or post-Augustan ) to silver Latin Cruttwell realizes that this construct is not according to ancient usage and asserts "… the epithet classical is by many restricted to the authors who wrote in it Latin.

To these critics it brought in a variety of approaches from other disciplines, so that the term " postprocessual ," while rather neatly echoing the epithet " postmodern " in literary studies, was a shade arrogant in presuming to supersede what it might quite properly claim to complement.

James McCarthy, F. R. G. S., who served as Director-General of the Siamese Government Surveys prior to establishment of the Royal Survey Department, wrote in his account: Me Nam is a generic term, Me signifying " mother " and Nam " water ," and the epithet Chao P ' ia signifies that it is the chief river in the kingdom of Siam.

Vitalism is now considered an obsolete term in the philosophy of science, most often used as a pejorative epithet.

As the Republican Party became more socially conservative, the pejorative has become almost exclusively associated with Liberal Democrats, and within American political discourse, the term East Coast Liberal is almost always used as a disparaging epithet distinguishing from rural or suburban areas usually in Middle America, the Red States.

The Qur ' an is less specific but condemns idolatry and uses the Arabic term musawwir (" maker of forms ," or artist ) as an epithet for God.

This version of Longshot despises normal human beings ; he regularly uses the epithet " flatscan " when referring to them, introducing the term to the Ultimate universe.

Though the preferred term by scuba users is " diver ", the " frogman " epithet persists in informal usage by non-divers, especially in the media and often in reference to professional scuba divers such as in a police role.

The disguise turns out to be a poor-quality, damaged raccoon suit, which disgusts Bucky but is then donned by Satchel, who then begins to speak in a manner suggestive of " Ebonics ", which could conceivably be deemed offensive since the term " coon " has frequently been used as a racial epithet against blacks.

The features of the Statute of Anne that justify the epithet of trade regulation included the limited term of copyright, the availability of copyright to anyone, and the price-control provisions.

In the United States, the term hyphenated American is an epithet commonly used from 1890 to 1920 to disparage Americans who were of foreign birth or origin, and who displayed an allegiance to a foreign country.