from ἀντὶ and ὄνομα, a figure of rhetoric by which a substitution is used for a proper name. It may be either the employment of a patronymic, a characteristic epithet, or the substitution of another name for that of the individual. Thus Homer uses "Pelides" and "Atrides" for Achilles and Agamemnon; Aristotle is denominated "the Stagyrite;" Pope designates Charles XII. and Alexander the Great "the Swede," and "Macedonia's Antosianmadman;" Thomson terms Charles "the frantic Alexander of the north."