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ἡρῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡρῷος ἡρῷη ἡρῷον

Structure: ἡρῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for h(rw/i+os

Sense

  1. the heroic measure, hexameter, the dactyl

Examples

  • τὴν εὔνοιαν, δι’ ἣν τὸν μετ’ ἀνθρώπων βίον ἐκλιπὼν ἡρώοισ ἐκοσμεῖτο καὶ μνημάτων κατασκευαῖσ πολλαχῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 54 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the heroic measure

Related

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

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