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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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The point is clear so far, that Lycurgus himself is said to have lived in the days of the Heraclidae.

From Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Dakyns, Henry Graham

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

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 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

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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