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The Heraclean tables from a Laconian colony in S. Italy have curious forms in -ασσι for the dat. pl. of the participle πρασσόντασσι = Attic πράττουσι.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

That the Italian Heracleans should have preserved the ancient language and writing to the fifth century after the building of Rome so faithfully as the famous Heraclean Tables show us, is very remarkable.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

All ordinary architectural lion sculpture is derived from the Heraclean.

From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John

Heraclean stone, or stone of Hercules, 8, 43, 61, 169.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Now here is the Christian change of the Heraclean conquest of Death into Christ's Resurrection.

From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John