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heroicus

heroicus · adj

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

hērōĭcus — Lewis & Short

hērōĭcus, a, um, adj., = h(rwi+ko/s,

I of or relating to (mythical) heroes, heroic: vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 1: tempora, id. N. D. 3, 21, 54; Quint. 1, 11, 17: aetates, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7: Medea et Atreus, heroicae personae, id. N. D. 3, 29, 71: sublimitas heroici carminis, of the heroic poem, of the epic, Quint. 1, 8, 5; cf.: heroici carminis sonus, Tac. Or. 10: carmen, Serv. Verg. A. 1 init.: versus, usually herous versus (v. herous), Prisc. p. 1256 P.—Adv.: hērōĭcē, in the heroic style: hos quoque (versus Homeri) tamquam heroice incomptos adamavit (Vergilius), Macr. S. 5, 14.

In the wild

heroici Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.3
heroicus Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis praef.pr.p4
heroico Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.24.p57
heroicis Cicero, De Divinatione 1.1
heroicae Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.71.p2
heroicis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.9.8

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Where it came from

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