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Example sentences for: epithet

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And then Robinson bids us compare “the Arabic epithet of Alexander the Great” which he translates as the Latin word, bicornis `two-horned.
In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.
The latter, however, isn't a country, but--as its ever-present Homeric epithet indicates--a "breakaway republic" of Russia.
The epithet was apparently already being used elsewhere in the movie, and so the line did not survive.
Later bubo came to refer almost exclusively to the inguinal swelling of venereal disease, along the way being corrupted to “blue balls” as in the colorful epithet, blue-balled bastard.