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Heraclidae

American  
[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /
Or Heracleidae

noun

  1. a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.


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To me, as one of the Heraclidae, was assigned the honour of tracking and destroying him.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

How much of the air and sun does this form take from the descendant of the Heraclidae?'

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

The Heraclidae and the Dorians now divided between them the dominions of Tisamenus and of the other Achaean princes.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith

The Heraclidae was undoubtedly written with a similar view in respect to Lacedaemon.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black

But the affair of the Heraclidae took place eighty years after the destruction of Troy.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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