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ἐπώνυ^μ-ος , ον (for the form cf. ἀν-ώνυμος),
A.given as a significant name, “τῷ δ᾽ Ὀδυσεὺς ὄνομ᾽ ἔστω ἐπώνυμον” Od.19.409 (cf. ὀδυσσάμενος τόδ᾽ ἱκάνω ib.407); “Ἀλκυόνην καλέεσκον ἐπώνυμον, οὕνεκ᾽..” Il.9.562, cf. h.Ap. 373; “Κύκλωπες δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἦσαν ἐπώνυμοι, οὕνεκα..” Hes.Th.144 ; τῷ μὲν ἐπώνυμον ἦεν [Χρυσάωρ], ὅτ᾽.. ib.282 ; when the reason is omitted, the name is itself significant, Ἀρήτη δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐπώνυμον ('the Desired') Od.7.54 ; κάρτα δ᾽ ὢν ἐ., πομπαῖος ἴσθι, of Hermes, A.Eu. 90 ; Ζεὺς ἀλεξητήριος ἐ. γένοιτο may he become a defender according to his name, Id.Th.9, cf. 405 ; ἐπωνύμῳ δὲ κάρτα Πολυνείκει λέγω ib.658 ; ὦ Πολύνεικες ἔφυς ἄρ᾽ ἐ. rightly wert thou named.., E.Ph. 1494 (anap.).
2. surnamed, “Αθηναίῃ ἐ. Κραθίῃ” Hdt.5.45 ; πολλῶν ὀνομάτων ἐ., of Aphrodite, S.Fr.941.2 ; τόδ᾽ ἐπώνυμον this is her proper name (sc. Αἴγλα), Isyll.47.
3. freq. c. gen., named after a person or thing, “ἐμοῦ δ᾽.. ἐπώνυμον γένος Πελασγῶν” A.Supp.252, cf. Pr.850, S.OC65 ; ἐ. ὄρνιχος called after it, Pi.I.6(5).53, cf. Hdt. 7.11, S.Fr.323, Euph.34.3 ; “τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι, ἧς ἐστιν ἐ. ἡ φρατρία” Rev.Épigr.1.239 (Naples, ii A.D.); “ἔνθεν ἔστ᾽ ἐ.” A.Eu.689 ; “ἐ. δεῖπνα Θυέστου” E.Or.1008 (anap.); “πόλεις ἐ. βασιλέων” Plu.Comp.Thes.Rom.4 ; “ἐ. τοῦ θανάτου τινὸς γενέσθαι” Id.Flam.21 ; “ἐ. ἐπί τινος” Hdt.4.184 ; “ἔκ τινος” D.P.779 ; “ἀπό τινος” Scymn.547 : c. dat., “Ὀδυσσεύς εἰμ᾽ ἐ. κακοῖς” S.Fr.965 (s.v.l.); “πόλιν ποιεῖν ἐ. τινι” Pl.Lg.969a ; “φυλὴν ἐ. ἐποίησαν Ἀττάλῳ” Plb.16.25.9 ; “ἐ. ἑαυτῷ” D.H.1.9 ; χῶραι ἐ. local names of places, Plb.5.21.7 ; = Lat. cognomen, D.H.5.25 codd.; τῆς πράξεως ἐ., of Mummius, i.e. Achaëcus, Plu.Mar.I ; title, D.C.72.22. Adv. -μως by being named after, “ἔκ τινος” Ath.3.121a ; “ἐ. τῇ γεννώσῃ χώρᾳ” Dsc.3.23.
II. Act., giving one's name to a thing or person, αὐτό μοι σύ, παῖ, λαβὼν ἐ. (sc. τὸ σάκος) which gives thee thy name (of Eurysaces), S.Aj.574 ; “τοῦ ἐ. τῆς πόλεως Διονύσου” SIG762.13 (Dionysopolis, i B.C.).
2. at Athens, οἱ ἐ. (sc. ἥρωες) the heroes who gave their names to the Attic φυλαί, Decr. ap. And.1.83, Isoc.18.61, D.21.103, etc.
b. ἄρχων ἐ. the first Archon, who gave his name to the current year, IG3.81, al., Poll.8.89 ; also of the Spartan Ephors, Paus.3.11.2 ; of the Roman consules ordinarii, IG14.1389i34, Hdn.1.16.3 ; “οἱ τὰ ἐ. ἄρξαντες” App.Syr.51 ; “ἄρξαντα τὴν ἐ. ἀρχήν” SIG872.6 (Eleusis, ii A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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