ἥρως
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἥρως
Structure:
ἡρω
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- (Epic) A hero of the Trojan War: any of the major combatants of the Greek or Trojan forces.
- (classical) A hero or heroine of the ancient Greek religion: a human or demigod whose shrine was celebrated with chthonic rituals organized by local governments.
Declension
Third 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.
- Ἀθηνόδωροσ Σάνδωνοσ Ταρσεὺσ Στωϊκόσ, ὃσ καὶ διδάσκαλοσ ἐγένετο Καίσαροσ Σεβαστοῦ θεοῦ, ὑφ’ οὗ ἡ Ταρσέων πόλισ καὶ φόρων ἐκουφίσθη, δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη βιοὺσ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, καὶ τιμὰσ ὁ Ταρσέων δῆμοσ αὐτῷ κατ’ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον ἀπονέμει ὡσ ἡρ́ωϊ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 21:2)
- ὧν οὐκ ἀλλότρια καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Ὀρέστην δράματα καὶ τὰ ἐν Σκυθίᾳ τῷ ἡρ́ωϊ τετολμημένα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 46:3)
- Δημήτηρ μὲν Πλοῦτον ἐγείνατο, δῖα θεάων, Ιἀσίων’ ἡρ́ωι μιγεῖσ’ ἐρατῇ φιλότητι νειῷ ἔνι τριπόλῳ, Κρήτησ ἐν πίονι δήμῳ, ἐσθλόν, ὃσ εἶσ’ ἐπὶ γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ πάντη· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 104:1)
- Αἰνείαν δ’ ἄρ’ ἔτικτεν ἐυστέφανοσ Κυθέρεια Ἀγχίσῃ ἡρ́ωι μιγεῖσ’ ἐρατῇ φιλότητι Ἴδησ ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ὑληέσσησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 111:1)
- "παρὰ Πάρθοισ ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ ὁ βασιλεὺσ τήν τε κλίνην ἐφ’ ἧσ μόνοσ κατέκειτο μετεωροτέραν τῶν ἄλλων καὶ κεχωρισμένην εἶχε καὶ τὴν τράπεζαν μόνῳ καθάπερ ἡρ́ωι πλήρη βαρβαρικῶν θοιναμάτων παρακειμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 38 1:2)
