单词 | heracleid |
释义 | HeracleidHeraclidn. a. One of the descendants of Heracles from whom the Dorian aristocracy of the Peloponnesus claimed descent. (Chiefly in plural.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > descendant of Heracles Heracleid1835 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vii. 273 (heading) Return of the Heracleids. 1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) ii. vi. 156 The heart of the Heracleid beats under the robe of the Mede. 1892 Athenæum 16 July 92/1 An ode composed by a Theban in honour of a Heracleid. b. A ‘strong man’. humorous nonce-use. ΚΠ 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. i. 17 The Heraklide showed symptoms of becoming confidential. c. A poem describing the exploits of Heracles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > epic poem > other types of epic poem Argonautic1583 Heracleid1725 Christiad1750 Diaboliad1777 Byroniad1819 chanson de geste1833 roman de geste1836 bylina1886 1725 A. Pope tr. R. Le Bossu Gen. View Epic Poem in tr. Homer Odyssey I. p. ix Poets..who compos'd their Theseids, Heracleids, and the like. 1904 T. R. Glover Stud. Virgil iii. 75 Poets who have composed a Herakleid, a Theseid, or other poems of the kind. Derivatives Heraˈcleidan adj. of or pertaining to a Heracleid. ΚΠ 1821 Ld. Byron Isles of Greece in Don Juan: Canto III 50 And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1725 |
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