Heraclidae
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The Heraclidae, who thus became practically masters of Peloponnesus, proceeded to distribute its territory among themselves by lot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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 Smith, William, Sir
Lysander's father is said to have been Aristoclitus, who was not indeed of the royal family, but yet of the stock of the Heraclidae.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
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