Ἡράκλειος (erakleios)

Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 6 · 18.55/10k
Heracles 7 · 8.94/10k
De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Theogony 5 · 7.26/10k
Trachiniae 5 · 6.88/10k
De Mundo 3 · 4.73/10k
Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
Politics 6 · 0.92/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Ἡράκλειος · Hērakleios — LSJ

of Heracles, Heracles himself, like Heracles

of Heracles, βίη Ἡρακληείη, i.e. Heracles himself, Il. 11.690, al., Theoc. 25.154, etc.; Ἡ. στῆλαι the opposite headlands of Gibraltar and Apes’ Hill near Tangier, Hdt. 2.33, 4.8 (where -κλέων is the best reading); στᾶλαι Ἡ Pi. I. 4(3).12. Adv. -είως like Heracles, Luc. Peregr. 33.

II temple of Heracles, a huge drinking-cup

Ἡράκλειον or Ἡρακλεῖον, Ion. -ήϊον (sc. ἱερόν), τό, temple of Heracles, Hdt. 2.44, al.; also, a huge drinking-cup, such as Heracles used, Ath. 11.469c.

2 his festival

Ἡράκλεια (sc. ἱερά), τά, his festival, Ar. Ra. 651, IG 3.129; Ἡ. θύειν D. 19.86, etc.

3 frothy poppy, Silene viscosa

Ἡρακλεία, ἡ, frothy poppy, Silene viscosa, Thphr. HP 9.12.5, 9.15.5, Dsc. 4.66.

b

title of poem by Rhianus.

III epilepsy, elephantiasis

νοῦσος Ἡρακλείη epilepsy, Hp. Mul. 1.7, cf. Gal. 17(2).341; but Ἡ. πάθος elephantiasis, Aret. SD 2.13.

IV hot

Ἡράκλεια λουτρά hot baths, Ar. Nu. 1051, ubi v. Sch. (also Ἡρακλέους κοῖται soft bedding, Megaclid. ap. Ath. 12.512f).

V the magnet

λίθος Ἡρακλεία or Ἡράκλεια, ἡ, the magnet, Pl. Ti. 80c, Ion 533d, Epicur. Fr. 293; from Heraclea in Lydia, acc. to Hsch.

2 opopanax

πάνακες Ἡράκλειον opopanax, Zopyr. ap. Orib. 14.62.1.

VI

Ἡράκλειος, ὁ (sc. μήν), a month at Delphi, GDI 1685, al.; at Halicarnassus, SIG 1015.1.

In the wild

Ἡράκλεια · Hērakleia Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..54 (DIORISIS sentence 649)
Ἡρακλείαις · Hērakleiais Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 4)
Ἡρακλείους · Hērakleious Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 35)
Ἡρακλείους · Hērakleious Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 36)
Ἡρακλείους · Hērakleious Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 40)
Ἡρακλείᾳ · Hērakleiai Aristotle, Politics 1304b (DIORISIS sentence 1921)

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Where it came from

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