Heracleides
Britishnoun
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Heracleides, in the fourth century B. C., said that Mercury and Venus circled around the sun, and in the third century Aristarchus of Samos actually anticipated, though it was a mere guess, the heliocentric theory.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Of course to the mind of Heracleides this is all silly talk; since the one great object is to keep money by whatever means.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
Heracleides insisted that this was all he had got by his trafficking.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
Heracleides, as he used to prove to me, finds the sum excessive.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
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