Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city near Naples, buried at the same time with Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in
a. d. 79.
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Examples
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There it was, a herculanean task, the work of months, as it seemed to Roy.
Tom Slade at Black Lake Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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