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.
- Τὸν δὲ Ἰούδαν ἀπέστειλεν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ πρὸσ Ἰωσὴφ συναντῆσαι αὐτῷ καθ̓ Ἡρώων πόλιν, εἰσ γῆν Ραμεσσῆ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 46:28)
- ζεύξασ δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τὰ ἅρματα αὐτοῦ ἀνέβη εἰσ συνάντησιν Ἰσραὴλ τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ καθ̓ Ἡρώων πόλιν καὶ ὀφθεὶσ αὐτῷ ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔκλαυσε κλαυθμῷ πίονι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 46:29)
- ἔνθ’ ὅ γε δώματ’ ἔναιε σὺν αἰδοίῃ παρακοίτι νόσφιν ἄτερ φιλότητοσ ἐφιμέρου, οὐδέ οἱ ἠε͂ν πρὶν λεχέων ἐπιβῆναι ἐυσφύρου Ἠλεκτρυώνησ, πρίν γε φόνον τίσαιτο κασιγνήτων μεγαθύμων ἧσ ἀλόχου, μαλερῷ δὲ καταφλέξαι πυρὶ κώμασ ἀνδρῶν ἡρώων Ταφίων ἰδὲ Τηλεβοάων. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 2:8)
- τὸν γὰρ ἄριστον τῶν ἡρώων ἐπαινέσαι ζητῶν οὐ λέοντι ἢ παρδάλει ἢ ὑῒ τὴν ἀλκὴν αὐτοῦ εἰκάζει, ἀλλὰ τῷ θάρσει τῆσ μυίασ καὶ τῷ ἀτρέστῳ καὶ λιπαρεῖ τῆσ ἐπιχειρήσεωσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 5:3)
- τὸ δὲ νῦν ἔχον ἐβουλόμην τὸν ὁποσονοῦν χρόνον τοῦτον εὐδαιμόνωσ διαβιοὺσ ὑπὸ ἑκκαίδεκα γυπῶν κείρεσθαι τὸ ἧπαρ ἀποθανών, ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐνταῦθα διψήσασ ὥσπερ ὁ Τάνταλοσ ἐν Μακάρων νήσοισ πίνειν μετὰ τῶν ἡρώων ἐν τῷ Ἠλυσίῳ λειμῶνι κατακείμενοσ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 17:5)
