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Ἡράκλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡράκλειος Ἡράκλειᾱ Ἡράκλειον

Structure: Ἡρακλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from H(rakle/hs

Sense

  1. of Hercules, Hercules himself
  2. the temple of Hercules, Heracleum
  3. his festival

Examples

  • ἐν Κυνοσάργει μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ Ἡρακλείῳ στήλη τίσ ἐστιν ἐν ᾗ ψήφισμα μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδου, γραμματεὺσ δὲ Στέφανοσ Θουκυδίδου, λέγεται δ’ ἐν αὐτῷ περὶ τῆσ προσηγορίασ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 26 1:2)
  • τὸν δὲ περίπατον καταλείπω τῶν γνωρίμων τοῖσ βουλομένοισ, Βούλωνι, Καλλίνῳ, Ἀρίστωνι, Ἀμφίωνι, Λύκωνι, Πύθωνι, Ἀριστομάχῳ, Ἡρακλείῳ, Λυκομήδει, Λύκωνι τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. d'. LUKWN 6:2)
  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ ὡσ ποδῶν εἶχον τάχιστα ἐβοήθεον ἐσ τὸ ἄστυ, καὶ ἔφθησάν τε ἀπικόμενοι πρὶν ἢ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ ἥκειν, καὶ ἐστρατοπεδεύσαντο ἀπιγμένοι ἐξ Ἡρακλείου τοῦ ἐν Μαραθῶνι ἐν ἄλλῳ Ἡρακλείῳ τῷ ἐν Κυνοσάργεϊ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 116 2:2)
  • ἡσθείησ δ’ ἂν καὶ τῷ ἐν Ἐρυθραῖσ Ἡρακλείῳ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶσ τῷ ἐν Πριήνῃ ναῷ, τούτῳ μὲν τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ ἕνεκα, Ἡρακλείῳ δὲ τῷ ἐν Ἐρυθραῖσ κατὰ ἀρχαιότητα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. his festival

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

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