EPITHETON  慣用修飾語

REPETITIO of a commonly used semantically weak standard modifier to a main nominal expression.

Standard syntactic qualifier used with a word.

Compare the Medieval practice of standard epithets for rulers, as in William the Conqueror, but also Ivan Grozny. On this practice I have a splendid unpretentious and readable monograph. (PUT DETAILS)xxx

Hypernym
  • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
EX: "the divine Ulysses".

REF: Lausberg 680, Miriam 124

Greek/Latin: Discussed since Aristotle, Rhetoric 1405b21, mentions ho meetrofontees "mother-killer" as an example. Ubiquitous in Homer. Much more restricted in prose. Quint. 8.6.40 cetera iam non significandi gratia, sed ad ornandam et augendam orationem assumuntur; ornat enim epitheton, quod recte dicimus appositum, a nunnullis sequens dicitur.

Ancient Chinese: She2nno2ng 神農 . "The Divine Agriculturalist". The phenomenon is surprisingly limited in Chinese. Its range has never been explored.

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