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.

On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle ( 1849 ) coined ' the dismal science ' as an epithet for classical economics, in this context, commonly linked to the pessimistic analysis of Malthus ( 1798 ).

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

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.

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

This user privilege level is more commonly referred to within a computer or IT system as " administrator " ( without the epithet " system ").

A housing project in the neighborhood was nicknamed “ Crack City ,” an epithet commonly bestowed upon rough areas at the time.

The uninhabited areas are characterized by dense forests in the northwestern uplands and lakes in the east, giving rise to the epithet, commonly used for Dalsland, of " Sweden's lake province ".

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.

As is common with Marian apparitions, the epithet given Mary in reference to the apparition included the place name, thus " Holy Mary of Guadalupe " or more commonly Our Lady of Extremadura.

Although the Church's attitude on this has softened a bit since Dignitatis Humanae, latitudinarianism is still commonly criticized under the epithet of Cafeteria Catholic.

Chav, ( ) is a stereotype and pejorative epithet commonly used, chiefly in the United Kingdom.

Rather, in accord with another tradition in India of assigning the epithet " sant " ( स ं त ) to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, Tukaram is commonly known in Maharashtra as Sant Tukaram ( स ं त त ु क ा र ा म ).

His father, Donnchad mac Diarmata, more commonly known by the epithet Máel na mBó, whence Diarmait's patronym came.

L. quietus, which is commonly found under oak trees, is often thought to be a non-descript mushroom, and in fact that is the significance of its Latin epithet quietus.

( For several decades, the nothogeneric epithet Yamadara was commonly used to mean Adamara.

It belongs to the large Neotropical genus Amazona, commonly known as amazons ; these birds have also been given the generic epithet of ' parrot ' by the American Ornithologists ' Union, hence Puerto Rican Parrot is an alternative common name in North America.

While its anthropological and sociological aspects have not been clearly recognized, the term, and the corresponding epithet " Yugo-nostalgic ", is commonly used by the people in the region in two distinct ways: as a positive personal descriptive, and as a derogatory label.

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.

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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.

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.