- plural of Heraclid.
Heraclidae
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Hence this migration is called the Return of the Heraclidae.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
The Heraclidae is a very poor piece; its conclusion is singularly bald.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
By descent, indeed, the very last kings of Sparta were Heraclidae too; but he seems in that place to speak of the first and more immediate successors of Hercules.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
Aristarchus says he lived about the period of the Ionian emigration; this happened sixty years after the return of the Heraclidae.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The Heraclidae was undoubtedly written with a similar view in respect to Lacedaemon.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
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