The epithet " Smintheus " has historically been confused with σμίνθος, " mouse ", in association with Apollo's role as a god of disease.

The epithet " Loxias " has historically been associated with λοξός, " ambiguous ".

Wace usually only refers to li roi (" the king ") without naming him, and someone has taken an early mention of Uther's epithet Pendragon as the name of his brother.

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.

The name has been compared to a divine epithet Carnonos in a Celtic inscription written in Greek characters at Montagnac, Hérault ( as καρνονου, karnonou, in the dative case ).

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.

This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

As the senior synonym, Cuvier's name has precedence, so applying modern rules for the combination of the genus name and the specific epithet, the valid species name became Ptéro-Dactyle antiquus.

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.

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

Being an early pioneer next to Rodolphe Töpffer in the art of combining words and pictures to tell often humorous stories in sequential panels, throughout the latter half of the 20th century Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (" Grandfather of Comics ").

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.

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.

" This might indicate that the epithet be applied posthumously by the remaining disciples, but Joan E. Taylor has argued that it was a descriptive name given to Judas by Jesus, since other disciples such as Simon Peter / Cephas ( Kephas

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 more recent years, however, his name has become an epithet directed towards African-Americans who are accused of selling out to whites.

He was given the disparaging epithet the Drunkard () by the hostile historians of the succeeding Macedonian dynasty, but modern historical research has rehabilitated his reputation to some extent, demonstrating the vital role his reign played in the resurgence of Byzantine power in the 9th century.

It has been suggested that it means the " wrestler " or " struggler " and is an epithet of Heracles, with whom Melqart is identified by interpretatio graeca and referred to as the Tyrian Herakles, but there does not appear to be any traditional connection between Heracles and Palaemon.

In reading the account, the primitive aspect of the cult at Amathus would appear to be much older than the Athenian-sanctioned shrine of Aphrodite, who has assumed Ariadne ( hagne, " sacred ") as an epithet at Amathus.

As with the goddess Moneta, Juno Moneta's name is derived either from the Latin monēre, since, as protectress of funds, she " warned " of instability or more likely from the Greek " moneres " meaning " alone, unique ", an epithet that every mother has.

It has been suggested that he is Nuada under another name, or that his name is an epithet for Nechtan the river god.

John T. Koch has suggested that this Jovian epithet may originally have applied to Taranis, with allusion to the tendency of thunder near an observer to seem all-surrounding.

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.

At the end of January 1546, Pierre Ameaux, a maker of playing cards who had already been in trouble with the Consistory, attacked Calvin by calling him a " Picard ", an epithet denoting anti-French sentiment, and accused him of false doctrine.

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.

In early Germanic paganism, * Wulþuz (" glory "; Old Norse Ullr ) appears to have been a major god, or an epithet of an important god, in prehistoric times.

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

Iuppiter was associated with Liber through his epithet of Liber ( association not yet been fully explained by scholars, due to the scarcity of early documentation ).

The animals were frequently used as a model organism in the 19th and 20th centuries, resulting in the epithet " guinea pig " for a test subject, but have since been largely replaced by other rodents such as mice and rats.

The epithet Volks-literally, " people's -" had been previously applied to other Nazi sponsored consumer goods such as the Volksempfänger (" people's radio ").

However, it may well be doubted whether Priscus, like Major, were not merely an epithet used to distinguish him from the later Cato of Utica, and there is no precise information as to the date when he first received the title of Cato, which may have been given in childhood as a symbol of distinction.

An epithet of Belenus may have been Vindonnus.

Teutorix has been suggested as an epithet of Belenus as borrowed into Germanic religion.

However, Bleddyn Fardd refers to " Benigeitran " in his elegy for Llywelyn the Last, demonstrating that the epithet " Bendigeit " had been attached to Brân since the late 13th century.

Usage of the epithet came to exceed the original theonym and by the post-Vedic period ( in the Sanskrit Epics ), and the name Rudra has been taken as a synonym for the god Shiva and the two names are used interchangeably.

One phrase of the Rig Veda appears to indicate an epithet that has been attributed to the form of Vishnu as Narasimha.

The epithet " Arian " was also applied to the early Unitarians such as John Biddle though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians not Arians.

More commonly, however, the epithet anesidora is applied to Gaea or Demeter.

The epithet Dakshinakasi " Southern Kasi " is applied to it in some modern records.

The epithet " Wakefield Master " was first applied to this individual by the literary historian Gayley.

Bruckner's first great success was his Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, more commonly known as the Romantic Symphony, the only epithet applied to a symphony by the composer himself.

Another epithet applied to Edward I is " Hammer of the Scots ".

This epithet is commonly applied to prominent people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Lalon Shah, Jyotirao Phule and Branch Rickey.

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 ".

An older taxonomy, used throughout most of the 20th century, applied the epithet Canis familiaris dingo to the dingo.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

" It is an epithet sometimes applied to animals such as horses at Hom.

Adrasteia was also an epithet applied to Rhea herself, to Cybele, and to Ananke.

The word is applied as an epithet to Demeter in this context: Demeter Thesmophoros ; a relief at Eleusis illustrated in Kerenyi ( fig 7 ) shows the goddess sitting on the ground as she receives her votaries.

In classical Latin, the epithet Indiges, singular in form, is applied to Sol ( Sol Indiges ) and to Jupiter of Lavinium, later identified with Aeneas.

In Latvian mythology, Māte (" mother "), sometimes written in English as Mahte, was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses.

She was sometimes called " Adrasteia ", probably meaning " one from whom there is no escape "; her epithet Erinys (" implacable ") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.

This class, judged by the evolution of the mythological creations of the Veda, does not represent direct abstractions, but appears in each case to be derived from an epithet applied to one or more deities and illustrating a particular aspect of activity or character.

The epithet “ surya-rashmi ” has been used in the Rig Veda only once and, it has been applied to Savitr:

Constantine's derogatory epithet Kopronymos (" Dung-named ", from kopros (" feces " or " animal dung ") and onoma, " name "), was applied to him by his avowed enemies over this extremely emotional issue, the iconodules.

The Family Compact is the epithet applied by their opponents to a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political and judicial power in Upper Canada ( modern Ontario ) from the 1810s to the 1830s.

The epithet Corvinus ( referring to the raven ) was first used by Antonio Bonfini the biographer of his son Matthias Corvinus, but is also applied to Hunyadi.

The epithet " Tollan " was also sometimes applied to any great metropolis or capital.