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单词 heracleid
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HeracleidHeraclidn.

/ˈhɛrəklʌɪd//ˈhɛrəklɪd/
Forms: Also Heraklide.
Etymology: < Greek Ἡρακλείδης (plural Ἡρακλείδαι), Latin Heraclīdēs (plural Heraclīdae), a descendant of Ἡρακλῆς or Hercules.
a. One of the descendants of Heracles from whom the Dorian aristocracy of the Peloponnesus claimed descent. (Chiefly in plural.)
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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.
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1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. i. 17 The Heraklide showed symptoms of becoming confidential.
c. A poem describing the exploits of Heracles.
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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.
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1821 Ld. Byron Isles of Greece in Don Juan: Canto III 50 And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own.
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