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Agnomen   Listen
noun
Agnomen  n.  
1.
An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.
2.
An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.





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"Agnomen" Quotes from Famous Books



... you disquietude can give me amusement. Otherwise I should have been excessively diverted by the dialogue which you have reported with so much vivacity; the accusation; the predictions; and the elegant agnomen of "the novel-reader" for which I am indebted to this incognito. I went in some amazement to Malden, Romilly, and Barlow. Their acquaintance comprehends, I will venture to say, almost every man worth knowing in the university in every field of study. They ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan


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