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|lshtext=<b>hēros</b>: ōis, m., = [[ἥρως]]>,<br /><b>I</b> a demi-[[god]], [[hero]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> 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.