The corpus record — Latin

herous

herous · adj

of Hero

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. Hērōus — Lewis & Short

Hērōus, a, um, adj.,

I of Hero; v. Hero, I. B.

2. hērōus — Lewis & Short

hērōus, a, um, adj., = h(rw|os,

I of or relating to a hero, heroic.

I Adj.: labores, Stat. S. 4, 7, 2: chelys, id. ib. 1, 3, 102; cf.: carmen, Quint. 1, 8, 5; Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 16: versus, heroic or epic verse, Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68; Quint. 1, 5, 28: pes, an heroic or epic foot, Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182.—

II As subst.

A hērōus, i, m., an epic verse: apte Jungitur herous cum breviore modo, Ov. Am. 2, 17, 22; Mart. 3, 20, 6: in herois, Quint. 10, 1, 88 Zumpt N. cr.; also: herous, qui est idem dactylus, Quint. 9, 4, 88; id. 9, 4, 89.—

B hērōum, i, n.

1 A monument to the memory of a hero, Plin. 10, 5, 6, § 18. —

2 = asphodelus, Plin. 22, 22, 32, § 67.

In the wild

herous Ovid, Amores 2.17.22
herous Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.28
heroos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.31
heroos Statius, Silvae 5.3.99
Heroon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.29.p2
heroo Cicero, De Oratore 3.191

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