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Hēro, ūs, f., = Ἡρώ.

  1. I. A priestess of Aphrodite, in Sestos, beloved by Leander of Abydos, who repeatedly swam to her across the Hellespont, but at length was drowned, Ov. H. 18 and 19; id. Am. 2, 16, 31.
    1. B. Deriv.: Hērōus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hero: turres, Luc. 9, 955.
  2. II. One of the Danaïdes, Hyg. Fab. 170.
  3. III. A daughter of Priam, Hyg. Fab. 90.

† hēros, ōis, m., = ἥρως, a demi-god, hero.

  1. I. Lit.: heroum veteres casus imitari, Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 194: ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit Permixtos heroas, Verg. E. 4, 16: magnanimi heroes, id. A. 6, 649: incipit Aeneas heros, id. ib. 6, 103; called also: Troius heros, id. ib. 451: Laertius heros, i. e. Ulysses, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 3: quem virum aut heroa lyra vel acri Tibia sumis celebrare, Clio? Hor. C. 1, 12, 1: Ajax heros, id. S. 2, 3, 193: intererit multum, divusne loquatur an heros, id. A. P. 114.
    Adj., of or belonging to a hero or heroes, heroic: ecce modo heroas sensus efferre videmus Nugari solitos Graece (for heroicos or heroos), heroic thoughts or deeds, Pers. 1, 69.
  2. II. Transf., in Cicero of illustrious men: heros ille noster Cato, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 9: Antonii colloquium cum heroibus nostris (i. e. Bruto et Cassio), id. ib. 14, 6, 1: illorum fuit heroum (i. e. Platonis et Aristotelis), id. Rep. 3, 8; and ironically of Clodius: ignari, quantum in illo heroe esset animi, id. Att. 4, 3, 5.

1. Hērōus, a, um, adj., of Hero; v. Hero, I. B.

† 2. hērōus, a, um, adj., = ἡρῳος, of or relating to a hero, heroic.

  1. 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.
  2. II. As subst.
    1. 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.
    2. B. hērōum, i, n.
      1. 1. A monument to the memory of a hero, Plin. 10, 5, 6, § 18.
      2. 2. = asphodelus, Plin. 22, 22, 32, § 67.