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ἡρω-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of the heroes, κατὰ τοὺς ἡ. χρόνους (cf. “ἥρως” 1.1) Arist.Pol.1285b4; “ἡ χλαῖνα ἡ. φόρημα” Ammon.Diff. p.140V.
2. of or for a hero, heroic, “φῦλον” Pl.Cra.398e; ἡ. σώματα of heroic stature, Phld.Po.2.43; “ἀρετή” Arist.EN1145a20; “ἡρωϊκὰ φρονεῖν” Luc.Am.20. Adv. -κῶς like a hero, “τελευτῆσαι τὸν βίον” D.S. 2.45; cf. ἡροϊκός.
II. in Metre, ἡ. στίχος heroic verse, hexameter, Pl.Lg.958e; “μέτρον” Arist.Po.1459b32; εἰς τὴν ἡ. τάξιν ἐπανῆχθαι to be brought into an Epic poem, D.60.9. Adv. “-κῶς, τὴν τραγῳδίαν ἀναγνῶναι” D.T.629.18.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1145a.20
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1459b.32
    • Demosthenes, Funeral Speech, 9
    • Plato, Laws, 958e
    • Plato, Cratylus, 398e
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.45
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