Hercules

hercules Hércules Hèrcules English Etymology en ine-pro *ḱlew- From en la Herculēs, from en ett 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄, from en grc Ἡρακλῆς, apparently cognate of grc Ἥρα Hera and, according to Haudry, from en ine-pro *yóh₁r̥ year, season + grc κλέος glory. en Heracles. Pronunciation en /ˈhɜːkjəliːz/ /ˈhɜːkjʊliːz/ RP en /ˈhɝːkjəliːz/ /ˈhɝːkjʊliːz/ US en en-uk-Hercules.ogg UK Proper noun en proper noun plural Herculeses or Hercules or obsolete Herculesses or obsolete Hercules's en Roman mythology The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family. en Heracles Melqart en The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes, in a Short, Plain and Familiar Method by Way of Dialogue 2nd London Printed for Charles Harper,at the Flower-de-luce over-against St. Dunstan’s-Church in Fleetstreet 1698 332 THere were many Hercules’s, but (as Tully ſays, de Nat. Deor. lib. 3.) the famous Actions of them all are aſcrib’d to him who was the Son of Jupiter, by Alcmena, the Wife of Amphitryo King of Thebes. en The Antient Religion of the Gentiles, and Causes of Their Errors Consider’d:The Mistakes and Failures of the Heathen Priests and Wise-Men, in Their Notions of the Deity, and Matters of Divine Worship, Are Examin’d; with Regard to Their Being Altogether Destitute of Divine Revelation. With a Compleat Index. London Printed, for John Nutt,near Stationers-Hall 1705 166 THere were many Hercules’s amongſt the Antients; Varro enumerates Forty four. The moſt famous were, Hercules Marguſanus, Hercules Ogmius, who was the Symbol of Eloquence amongſt the Gauls; Hercules Pollens, Hercules Thebanus, firſt called Alcides, Hercules Tyrius, or Egyptian; and there were two of them; the Elder called Melicarthus, or Eſau, the Founder of the City of Tyre; and the Younger, who Subdu’d Geryon, and was Worſhipped in Sidon in Spain. en The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher volume the third London Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draperin the Strand 1750 70 Mr. Sympſon would read Theban, the Story of Omphale being, as he thinks, only applicable to him: But as there were many Hercules’s, and among the reſt a Libyan, the Son of Jupiter Ammon; if it is inaccurate, it ſeems the Inaccuracy of a Scholar, and not an Error of the Preſs. en The New Peerage; or Present State of the Nobility of England:Containing an Account of All the Peers of That Kingdom; Their Descents and Collateral Branches; Their Births, Marriages and Issue. Also Their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottoes: To Which Is Added a List of the Extinct Peers, and an Account of the Chief Governors of Ireland. III London Printed for R. Davis,in Piccadilly; L. Davis,in Holborn; and W. Owen,in Fleet-Street 1769 227 Supporters.] Two Herculeſſes, with clubs over their ſhoulders, proper, crined and habited about the middle, or. en Paradise Regained, a Poem, in Four Books, by John Milton. A New Edition, with Notes of Various Authors, by Charles Dunster, M.A. London Printed for T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies,(successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand 1795 258 There were so many Hercules in the Grecian mythology and history, that it was necessary to specify when the principal Hercules, the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, was meant. en L[eveson] Vernon Harcourt The Doctrine of the Deluge; Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the Doubts Which Have Recently Been Cast upon It by Geological Speculations I London Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,Paternoster-Row 1838 453 Thus he enumerates many Hercules’s, and many Mercury’s; but one part of the history of each is so much the same, that I know not how he could avoid perceiving that they were only two names of one person. en [Josiah Priest] Slavery, as It Relates to the Negro, or African Race, Examined in the Light of Circumstances, History and the Holy Scriptures;with an Account of the Origin of the Black Man’s Color, Causes of His State of Servitude and Traces of His Character as Well in Ancient as in Modern Times: With Strictures on Abolitionism Albany, N.Y. C. Van Benthuysen and Co. 1843 VII 1—Hercules—Was Nimrod, the grand-son of Noah, and the origin of all the fabled Herculesses of all the early nations—1 en Richard B[oxall] Grantham A Treatise on Public Slaughter-Houses, Considered in Connection with the Sanitary Question.Describing the Practice of Slaughtering in France and England, with an Historical and Statistical Account of the Abattoirs of Paris, and Accompanied by Plans, with the View to the Introduction of Similar Establishments into England. London Published by J[ohn] Weale,Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn; and by Henry Renshaw,356, Strand 1848 25 Our great cities have become so many Augean stables, for the removal of whose filth as many Hercules are required. en w:Philip Schaff History of the Christian Church Edinburgh T. & T. Clark,38 George Street 1884 112 “1 Diogenes turned Hercules into ridicule; and the Roman Cynic Varro introduces three hundred Joves without heads.” From the stage abuser the sarcastic African father selects, partly from his own former observation, those of Diana being flogged, the reading of Jupiter’s will after his decease, and the three half-starved Herculesses! en w:The City of God 1903 62 and now was Hercules famous at Tyre: not he that we spoke of before: (for the more secret histories say there were many Hercules, and many father Libers) and this Hercules they make famous for twelve sundry rare exploits en Hans Soop The Power and the Glory: The Sculptures of the Warship Wasa w:Almqvist & Wiksell 1986 43 91-7402-168-0 The two Hercules are positioned on the same convex, bulging frame of the lower stern gallery as David, but furthest to the port (No. 397) and to the starboard (No. 1279) respectively of the centre line. en Gino Moliterno Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts 28 The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2008 188 978-0-8108-6073-5 By this time, however, Maciste had lost his individuality and had become indistinguishable from the many Herculeses, Atlases, and other assorted neomythological strongmen, all played by a host of American bodybuilders. en constellation A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis. en astronomy A crater in the first quadrant on the moon. en rare countable en male Ancient Greek. en city co/Contra Costa County s/California c/US. Derived terms en Gates of Hercules Her Herc Herculean Herculinian Herculis Hercverse Related terms en Heracles Herakles Hercules ant Hercules beetle Translations The Roman name of Heracles Heracles Arabic: ar هِرَقْل m Armenian: hy Հերկուլես Bulgarian: bg Херкулес m Catalan: ca Hèrcules m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 海格立斯 Hǎigélìsī, cmn 赫耳枯勒斯 Hè'ěrkūlèsī Czech: cs Herkules m Danish: da Herkules Dutch: nl Hercules m Esperanto: eo Herkulo Finnish: fi Herkules French: fr Hercule m Middle French: frm Hercule m Galician: gl Hércules m Georgian: ka ჰერკულესი German: de Herkules m Greenlandic: kl Herkulesi Hungarian: hu Hercules, hu Herkules Icelandic: is Herkúles m Inuktitut: iu ᐦᐄᕐᑯᓖᔅ Italian: it Ercole Khmer: km អ៊ែរគុល Latin: la Herculēs Marathi: mr हर्क्यूलीस Odia: or ହର୍କ୍ୟୁଲିସ Polish: pl Herkules m Portuguese: pt Hércules m Romanian: ro Hercule m Russian: ru Геркуле́с m Slovak: sk Herkules m Spanish: es Hércules m Swahili: sw Herkule, sw Hekyulizi Swedish: sv Herkules c Thai: th เฮอร์คิวลีส, th เฮราคลีส Turkish: tr Herkül Ottoman Turkish: ota هركول Herkül Ukrainian: uk Геркуле́с constellation Bulgarian: bg Херкулес m Burmese: my တံငါတာရာ, my တံငါတာရာ Catalan: ca Hèrcules m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 武仙座 Czech: cs Herkules m, cs souhvězdí Herkula n Dutch: nl Hercules m Finnish: fi Herkules French: fr Hercule m Galician: gl Hércules German: de Herkules m Greek: el Ηρακλής m Ancient Greek: grc Ἡρακλῆς m Icelandic: is Herkúles m Irish: ga Earcail m Italian: it Ercole m Latin: la Hercules, la Geniculator, la Geniculatus, la Ingeniculus, la Ingeniculatus, la Nixus genu, la Nixus in genibus, la Nixus Marathi: mr हरक्युलीझ Persian: fa رستم rostam, fa پهلوان pahlevân Polish: pl Herkules m Portuguese: pt Hércules Russian: ru Геркулес Spanish: es Hércules Swedish: sv Herkules Thai: th กลุ่มดาวเฮอร์คิวลีส Turkish: tr Herkül Further reading Noun * A Hercules beetle. A man with Herculean attributes. en 1913 Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan Ballantine Books New York 1963 28 For the immaculate gentleman her cries had lured to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamorphosed into a demon of revenge. Instead of soft muscles and a weak resistance, she was looking upon a veritable Hercules gone mad. Anagrams en ceehlrsu Schueler en eponyms en Individuals Mythological figures Scarabaeoids Dutch Pronunciation nl Nl-Hercules.ogg Proper noun m nl constellation en Hercules Latin Alternative forms la Hercelēs Herclēs Erclēs Etymology Via the la ett 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄, from the la grc Ἡρακλῆς, apparently cognate of grc Ἥρα Hera and, according to Haudry, from la ine-pro *yóh₁r̥ year, season + grc κλέος glory. Pronunciation yes Herculēs Proper noun Herculēs<3> Herculis/Hercule͡i/Herculī Herculē̆/Herculēs/Herclē̆ m la Greek mythology Hercules, Heracles, heroic son of Zeus. la Nē Herculēs quidem contrā/adversus duōs (Μηδ’ Ἡρακλῆς πρὸς δύο). Not even Hercules fights against two. Declension Herculēs<3.both> Herculis/Hercule͡i/Herculī Herculē̆/Herculēs/Herclē̆ Derived terms la Columnae Herculis Herculeus meherculē̆ Descendants en Hercules 1 it Ercole frm Hercule References Hercŭles Hercules Hercŭlēs 742/2 1 Herculēs 791/3 “Héros”, in Jean Haudry (2023) Léxique de la tradition indo-européenne, Fouenant: Yoran, pp. 268-9. Corpus inscriptorum Latinarum vol. I pars II fasc. I, p.623 §1482 [= 1113] and p.626 §1503 [= 1145]. More properly: Theodorus Mommsen (editor), Inscriptiones latinae antiquissimae ad C. Caesaris mortem. Editio altera, fasciculus I, Berlin, 1918