Heracles
noun
Heraclean
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a word derived from
Heracles.
Example Sentences
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His Breton sailor, Hervé Riel, has more than a touch of the Heraclean frankness of gaiety in arduous effort.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
All ordinary architectural lion sculpture is derived from the Heraclean.
From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by John Ruskin
Pindar's δέκεσθαι is probably also Doric, as well as in the Heraclean Tables.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
But all nations with whom it was found associate it with regions where Heraclean myths prevailed.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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
