agnomen

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Thus also, Quintus Fabius Maximus received the Agnomen of Cunctator, from his checking the victorious career of Hannibal by avoiding a battle.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

Agnomen, ag-nō′men, n. a surname added to the family name, generally on account of some great exploit, as Africanus to P. Cornelius Scipio.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He obtained the Agnomen of Numidicus for his services in the Jugurthine war.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

A fourth name, or Agnomen, was sometimes added, as in the case of Publius Cornelius Scipio, the elder, who received the name of Africanus from his conquest of Africa.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey