Heraclid

American

[her-uh-klid] / ˈhɛr ə klɪd /

noun

PLURAL

Heraclidae

a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.

Heraclid British

/ ˈhɛrəklɪd, ˌhɛrəˈklaɪdən /

noun

any person claiming descent from Hercules, esp one of the Dorian aristocrats of Sparta

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Heraclidan adjective

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Heraclid′, one claiming such descent.

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The Perseid�, the Heraclid�, the Pirithoid�, with Dionysus, Apollo and Artemis spring from the amours there recounted.*

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He points out that Euripides, in the Heraclid�, on account of the long distance between the places in the action, had been unable to limit the action to one day.

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Concerning the effeminacy of the Codridæ, see Heraclid.

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If the speech were now extant in which Hetoëmaridas the Heraclid proved to the councillors that it was not expedient for Sparta to aim at the mastery of the sea,809 we should doubtless possess a profound view, on the Spartan side, of those things which we are now accustomed to look on with Athenian eyes.

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