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- noun Plural form of
eponyme .
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We have a summary of these in a chronological tablet in the British Museum, containing a fragment -- from the end of the reign of Shamash-Bin to that of Tiglath-pileser II -- of a canon of eponymes mentioning the principal events year by year.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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But this conjecture is absolutely contradicted by the table of eponymes in the
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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The practice of eponymes was known also, and followed to some extent among the Teutonic tribes, both in regard to royal races and whole nations.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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