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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 Ἡρακλείᾳ ὁρ́μοσ ναυσίν, ἀπὸ δὲ Ἡρακλείασ ἐπὶ μὲν τὸ Μητρῷον καλούμενον στάδιοι ὀγδοήκοντα. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 13 5:1)
  • ἐκ τῆσ δ’ ̔ Ἡρακλείασ ὡσ ἐξῄει τὰσ πύλασ καὶ περιεσκόπει, ἐρομένου τινὸσ τί περισκοπεῖ , αἰσχύνεσθαι ἔφη μὴ ὀφθῇ, ὥσπερ ἐκ πορνείου ἐξιών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 44 1:1)
  • "μνημονεύει δ’ αὐτοῦ Μένανδροσ ἥκιστὰ γ’ ὢν λοίδοροσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἁλιεῦσιν, τὸν μῦθον ὑποστησάμενοσ ὑπέρ τινων φυγάδων ἐξ Ἡρακλείασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 72 1:6)
  • Ἡρακλείασ τύραννοσ γενόμενοσ σκηπτὸν ἐφόρει, καὶ τῶν υἱῶν ἕνα Κεραυνὸν ὠνόμασε; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 5 13:2)
  • καίτοι τί ἂν περὶ τούτων λέγοι τισ, οἷσ ἐξῆν δι’ Ἀλέξανδρον μέγα φρονεῖν, ὅπου καὶ Κλέαρχοσ Ἡρακλείασ τύραννοσ γενόμενοσ σκηπτὸν ἐφόρει, καὶ τῶν υἱῶν ἕνα Κεραυνὸν ὠνόμασε; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 5 5:2)

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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