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> To me it's an epithet - mostly used for dead people - to say they spent time with their kids and put them before other things like their career. It's an epit
by dasil003 9y ago
> To me it's an epithet - mostly used for dead people - to say they spent time with their kids and put them before other things like their career.
It's an epithet to put your family before your career? Wow, I pity anyone who views life that way.
Edit: Ah, didn't realize epithet could be non-negative, in that case it makes sense
- dasmoth 9y ago"an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned." Some epithets are negative. But certainly not all.
- wavefunction 9y agoAt least in the Homeric epics epithets were used as mnemonic devices for oral story-tellers and their audience to keep track of who was who, like 'swift-footed Achilles': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithets_in_Homer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithets_in_Homer Apparently the Greeks got this from earlier Indo-European traditions.
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