Namely 102

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­

102: myrmidon: a lackey—someone who carries out orders obediently without question (from the Myrmidons, a belligerent people of Thessaly who followed Achilles into the Trojan War; earliest known use, 15^th century)

“Oh, you are such a myrmidon!”

He barked at me today.

And I was very puzzled, and

Did not know what to say.

“So why say such a thing to me?”

I said then in reply,

“For there is no one else on earth

As pioneer as I.”

“You bore me, Daniel Boone,” he said.

“You and your coonskin cap.

To me it’s just a costume, dude—

A silly bunch of crap!”

And so I showed some leadership:

I took my flintlock out.

And he got up and ran away—

And that’s what that’s about!