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Ἡράκλειδαι

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡράκλειδαι

Structure: Ἡρακλειδ (Stem) + αι (Ending)

Etym.: from H(rakle/hs

Sense

  1. the Heraclidae or descendants of Hercules

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Εὐρυσθέωσ ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ ὑπὸ Ἡρακλειδῶν ἀποθανόντοσ, Ἀτρέωσ δὲ μητρὸσ ἀδελφοῦ ὄντοσ αὐτῷ, καὶ ἐπιτρέψαντοσ Εὐρυσθέωσ, ὅτ’ ἐστράτευε, Μυκήνασ τε καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν κατὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον Ἀτρεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 2:1)
  • καὶ ὡσ οὐκέτι ἀνεχώρησεν Εὐρυσθεύσ, βουλομένων καὶ τῶν Μυκηναίων φόβῳ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν, καὶ ἅμα δυνατὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ τεθεραπευκότα τῶν Μυκηναίων τε καὶ ὅσων Εὐρυσθεὺσ ἦρχεν τὴν βασιλείαν Ἀτρέα παραλαβεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 2:3)
  • εἶτα ὁ Ἀκάμασ καὶ ἡ Φυλλὶσ καὶ ἡ προτέρα δὲ τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἁρπαγὴ καὶ ἡ στρατεία τῶν Διοσκούρων ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ Ἱππολύτου πάθοσ καὶ Ἡρακλειδῶν κάθοδοσ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 40:4)
  • ὁρῶ τιν’ ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματοσ καθεδούμενον ἱκετηρίαν ἔχοντα μετὰ τῶν παιδίων καὶ τῆσ γυναικόσ, κου’ διοίσοντ’ ἄντικρυσ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν τῶν Παμφίλου. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:3)
  • Μελίσσου υἱὸσ Ἀκταίων γίνεται, κάλλιστοσ καὶ σωφρονέστατοσ τῶν ὁμηλίκων, οὗ πλεῖστοι μὲν ἐγένοντο ἐρασταί, διαφερόντωσ δ’ Ἀρχίασ, γένουσ μὲν ὢν τοῦ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν, πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ δυνάμει λαμπρότατοσ Κορινθίων. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 2 7:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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