The corpus record

Ἡρακλέης

*eraklees · ὁ

Heracles, like Heracles, Heracles

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Where it lives

Heracles 21 · 26.83/10k
Trachiniae 13 · 17.89/10k
Epistles 16 · 9.44/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 63 · 5.89/10k
Euthydemus 7 · 5.62/10k
De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
Anabasis 26 · 4.63/10k
Lysis 3 · 4.32/10k
Philoctetes 3 · 3.41/10k
Memorabilia 10 · 2.8/10k
Agesilaus 2 · 2.72/10k
Ion 1 · 2.49/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ἡρακλέης · Hērakleēs — LSJ

Heracles, like Heracles, Heracles

Heracles, Il. 14.266, etc.; Ἡρακλέος στᾶλαι (v. Ἡράκλειος), prov. of going to the farthest point, Pi. O. 3.44; Ἡρακλέους ὀργήν τινʼ ἔχων a temper like Heracles, Ar. V. 1030, Pax 752; prov. of close friendship, ἄλλος Ἡρακλῆς, ἄλλος αὐτός (Mss. οὗτος) Arist. EE 1245a30; but ἄλλος οὗτος Ἡρακλῆς ‘a second Heracles’, Id. MM 1213a13, Varr. Sat.Men. tit.: voc. Ἡράκλεις as an exclamation of surprise, anger, or disgust, Ar. Ach. 284, Nu. 184.

the planet Mars, Arist. Mu. 392a25, Ach.Tat. Intr.Arat. 17. [ᾰ, long by position in Ep. and E., as Heracl. 123.]

In the wild

Ἡρακλῆς · Hēraklēs Aristotle, Ars Poetica 8
Ἡρακλείδης · Hērakleidēs Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..41 (DIORISIS sentence 491)
Ἡρακλέους · Hērakleous Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 18)
Ἡρακλέους · Hērakleous Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 45)
Ἡρακλέους · Hērakleous Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 47)
Ἡρακλῆς · Hēraklēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7

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Where it came from

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