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The ingenious fables of the ancients have been grossly imitated by an unenlightened race — witness those of Bacchus, Hercules,
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Athalides, son of Mercury, could die and come to life again at will; Æsculapius restored Hippolytus to life, and Hercules,
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Greeks: -- and it is well known that the story of Isfendiyar, and of the daring deeds of the Persian hero Rustan, in love and war, [50] are to this day more popular in those regions than the tales of Hercules,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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I expect that he left all of a hundred thousand, by Hercules,
The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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I expect that he left all of a hundred thousand, by Hercules,
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Emperor Galerius, and dating from the short period when, after the abdication of Diocletian and Maximianus, Hercules,
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And you write of Achelöus, who contended with Hercules,
Poems 1918-21 1921
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It has been held that all which he, a heathen, could imply was that Jesus was a son of God in the sense in which the Greeks and Romans believed Hercules,
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion James Stalker 1887
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I love even our gods, as rhetorical figures, and Achæa, to which I am preparing to go with our fat, thin-legged, incomparable, godlike Cæsar, the august period-compelling Hercules,
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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It must have been on another day that young heads looked up in jest or earnest at Hercules,
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870
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