a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` upon, to + &unr_; for &unr_; name. ] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]