heros

Latin term · 55 occurrences · 8 works

Short definition (Lewis & Short): a demi-god, hero.

Full entry: Lexicon.

55 occurrences of this form in 8 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

Metamorphoses
Ovid · 29 occurrences
Aeneid
Virgil · 19 occurrences
Ars Poetica
Horace · 2 occurrences
Poems
Catullus · 1 occurrences
Letters to Atticus
Cicero · 1 occurrences
Satires
Horace · 1 occurrences
Epigrams
Martial · 1 occurrences
Ars Amatoria
Ovid · 1 occurrences

Example passages

…Flebat opemque tuam frustra Philyreius heros, Delphice, poscebat. Nam nec rescindere magni iussa Iovis poteras, nec, si rescindere posses, tunc aderas: Elin Messeniaque arva colebas. Illud erat tempus, quo te pastoria pellis…

Ovid — Metamorphoses · Read in context

…litore Trinacrio dederatque abeuntibus heros, dividit, et dictis maerentia pectora mulcet: O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem. Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis…

Virgil — Aeneid · Read in context

……lingua. si dicentis erunt fortunis absona dicta, Romani tollent equites peditesque cachinnum. intererit multum, Davusne loquatur an heros, maturusne senex an adhuc florente iuventa…

Horace — Ars Poetica · Read in context

Subjects

Myth & legend

Related terms in Greek (same subject)

θεός (theos) — Myth & legend
μῦθος (mythos) — Myth & legend

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