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In the papyri of Hyperides there are no stops at all, in the Herculanean rolls exceeding few: Codd.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

It is said that the works of Epicurus are probably amongst the Herculanean manuscripts.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Claromontanus, though of the sixth century, is in this instance as simple as any: the Herculanean rolls, Codd.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Herculanean, her-kū-lā′nē-an, adj. of or pertaining to Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried with Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

See article on "Herculanean Papyri," in Edinburgh Review, October, 1862.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)