Eponymous adj. 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?"
... All antiquity declares that the Babylonians and the Syrians had a taste for chronology at a very early period. This is proved by the eponymous system of the Assyrians, a system much to be preferred to the Egyptian habit of dating their monuments with the year of the current reign only.[61] Moreover, have not the ancients perpetuated the fame of the astronomical tables ... — A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
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