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Webster 1913 Edition
Eponymous
E-pon′y-mous
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK];
ἐπί
upon, to + [GREEK] for [GREEK] name.] Relating to an eponym; giving one’s name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that
eponymous
persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote.