So Constantine V. was surnamed (718, 741–775). “Kopros” is the Greek for dung, and Constantine V. was called Copronymus: “Parce quʹil salit les fonts baptismaux lorsquʹon le baptisait.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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