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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

  • πρώτῳ δ’ αὐτῷ τὰ τ’ ἐπῳδὰ καὶ τὰ τετράμετρα καὶ τὸ κρητικὸν καὶ τὸ προσοδιακὸν ἀποδέδοται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἡρῴου αὔξησισ, ὑπ’ ἐνίων δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἥ τε τοῦ ἰαμβείου πρὸσ τὸν ἐπιβατὸν παίωνα ἔντασισ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ηὐξημένου ἡρῴου εἴσ τε τὸ προσοδιακὸν καὶ τὸ κρητικόν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 28 3:1)
  • πρώτῳ δ’ αὐτῷ τά τ’ ἐπῳδὰ καὶ τὰ τετράμετρα καὶ τὸ κρητικὸν καὶ τὸ προσοδιακὸν ἀποδέδοται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἡρῴου αὔξησισ, ὑπ’ ἐνίων δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἥ τε τοῦ ἰαμβείου πρὸσ τὸν ἐπιβατὸν παιῶνα ἔντασισ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ηὐξημένου ἡρῴου εἴσ τε τὸ προσοδιακὸν καὶ τὸ κρητικόν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section34)
  • πλησίον δέ ἐστι τοῦ Πανδίονοσ ἡρῴου μνῆμα Ἱππολύτησ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 41 13:1)

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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