E‐pon″y‐mous (?), a. [Gr. �; επἴ upon, to + � for � 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.