[18] Πολυώνυμος: first in Hesiod and h. Apoll. 82. Preller thinks the epithet specially appropriate to Pluto, whose titles were numerous; see Preller-Robert i.^{2} p. 804, Rohde Psyche 192 f. For the “ἐπωνυμίαι” of Pluto cf. Paus.ix. 23. 4(on a hymn to Persephone by Pindar) “ἐν τούτῳ τῷ ᾁσματι ἄλλαι τε ἐς τὸν Ἅιδην εἰσὶν ἐπικλήσεις καὶ ὁ χρυσήνιος, δῆλα ὡς ἐπὶ τῆς Κόρης τῇ ἁρπαγῇ”. So in h. Apoll. 82 Apollo is “πολυώνυμος”, i.e. has many titles in different lands. On such accumulation of titles see Lobeck Agl. i. p. 401, who quotes e.g. Ov. Met.iv. 11 f., Gruppe Culte u. Mythen i. p. 555 n. 44, Adami p. 222 f. (where many references are collected), viii. Introd. The primary meaning of the word may therefore stand, in the case of gods; but, as applied to inanimate objects, “πολυώνυμος” is simply “famous”; cf. Theog. 785 (“ὕδωρ”), Pind. Pyth.i. 17（“ἄντρον”).
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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