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There is, however, another element in his work which has caused his name to become as eponym for an entire series of phenomena at one end of the psycho-sexual scale. This gives his productions a peculiar psychological value, though it cannot be denied also a morbid tinge that makes them often repellent.
The priest smiled and shook his head. "Bless you, no! My dear sir, there is nothing new. Epicurus and Lucretius outlined the whole Darwinian theory more than two thousand years ago. As for this eponym thing, why Saint Augustine called attention to it fifteen hundred years ago.
Goth, Guth, Yuth, signifies war. 'God' is the highest warrior, the Lord of hosts, and the progenitor of the race, whether as an 'Eponym hero' or as the supreme Deity.
On the twenty-ninth day the moon disappeared And the sun on the day of the eclipse entered the circle. It is an eclipse of Elam. May the heart of the king, my lord, rejoice. From Khushi-ilu, the servant of the king, the eponym. Another report reads: To the king, my lord, Thy servant Ishtar-iddinabal, The chief of the astronomers of Arbela.
"I fear that you are taking our friend Abraham too literally, Mr. Ware," he said, in that gentle semblance of paternal tones which seemed to go so well with his gown. "Modern research, you know, quite wipes him out of existence as an individual. The word 'Abram' is merely an eponym it means 'exalted father. Practically all the names in the Genesis chronologies are what we call eponymous.
How much earlier Samsi-Ramman I. reigned is not known perhaps only 40 or 50 years. The d of Dagon would be represented by d in cuneiform writing. See p. 154. An eponym in his days bears the name Daganbelusur. Exactly of what nature we do not know. The Assyrian word used, Cylinder, l. 43, is obscure. See p. 160. IR. 8, col. i. 85. See above, p. 166.
On the whole, therefore, it seems most probable that the race designated in Scripture by the hero-founder Nimrod, and among the Greeks by the eponym of Belus, passed from East Africa, by way of Arabia, to the valley of the Euphrates, shortly before the opening of the historical period.
See Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR. 56, col v. ll. 38-54. So, e.g. during the closing years of Nabonnedos' reign. Winckler, Untersuchungen zur Altorient. On the meaning and importance of the rite, see Winckler, Zeits. f. Assyr. ii. 302-304, and Lehmann's Shamash-shumukin, pp. 44-53. Eponym List, IIR. 52, no. 1 obv. 45.
They will boast that their king's father or grandfather, and soon that the ancestor of the whole tribe was an actual wasp; and the wasp will become at once their eponym hero, their deity, their ideal, their civiliser; who has taught them to build a kraal of huts, as he taught his children to build a hive.
The man who first emancipated sculpture from servile bondage, and opened a way for the attainment of true beauty, would by the Greeks have been honoured with a special cultas as the Hero Eponym of art. It remains for us after our own fashion to pay some such homage to Pisano.
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