Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of heroum, heroön.
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- noun Plural form of
heroon .
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Examples
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Alciden dictumque lyra maiore Catillum; seu tibi Pindaricis animus contendere plectris, siue chelyn tollas heroa ad robora, siue liuentem satiram nigra rubigine uibres, seu tua non alia splendescat epistola cura.
A Villa at Tibur 1912
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[213] Scattered up and down among the monuments of victory in battle were the heroa, tombs or chapels of the heroes who had purchased it with their blood -- Pausanias, Leonidas, brought home from Thermopylae forty years after his death.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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"Siste Viator -- heroa calcas!" was the epitaph on the famous Count
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Hac trutina non levius in Deum severissime iudicantem deliquerit ille caupo, qui gallum gallinaceum, quando non est opus, occiderit, quam infamis ille sicarius, qui plenus Beza, Gallum heroa Guisium, admiribili virtute principem, displosa fistula interemit; quo facinore nihil vidit orbis noster aetate nostra funestius, nihil luctuosius.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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Quem ▼ inim« aut heroa« lyri Tel acri Tibii safncs celebnre» Cfio?
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ... 1812
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