Heros, huius heroîs, pen. prod. m. g. Virg.He that for the lone of vertue snstaineth great labours and tranailes, or hee that doth things for excellencie abous mans condition. A passing excellent man in vertue and noblenesse: halfe a god.Delecti heroes, Virg. Magnanimi heroes. Virg.Maximus heros.Virg. Semidei heroes. Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕrus (less correctly, hĕrus, v. infra), i, m. [Sanscr. root, har-; har-āmi, I seize; har-anam, hand; Gr. xei/r, xe/rhs; Lat. heres, hirudo; but the form erus is that of the best MSS.; cf. Ritschl, Opusc. 2, 409; Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 24]. I.Lit., the master of a house or family, in respect to servants: erum atque servom saluere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 34: iis, qui vi oppressos imperio coercent, sit sane adhibenda saevitia, ut eris in famulos, si aliter teneri non possunt, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 24; cf.: non eros nec dominos appellabant eos, quibus juste paruerunt, id. Rep. 1, 41; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 87: me meus erus Fecit ut vigilarem, id. ib. 141: nonne erae meae nunciare, quod erus meus jussit, licet?id. ib. 296: quis erus est igitur tibi?id. ib. 206; 225: nec victoris eri tetigit captiva cubile, Verg. A. 3, 324; Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 20; cf.: O ere, quae res Nec modum habet, etc., Hor. S. 2, 3, 265: Le. Ubinam est erus? Li. Major apud forum'st minor hic est intus, our old ... our young master, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 63; cf. id. Capt. 3, 5, 49 sq.—II.Transf.A. Of men, a master, lord, owner, proprietor (poet.): agellulum hunc erique villulam hortulumque pauperis Tuor, Cat. 20, 4; cf.: propriae telluris erus, Hor. S. 2, 2, 129; and: ne perconteris, fundus meus Arvo pascat erum, an, etc., id. Ep. 1, 16, 2: destinata Aula divitem manet erum, id. C. 2, 18, 32: O cubile ... quae tuo veniunt ero Quanta gaudia, Cat. 61, 116.—B. Of the gods: nondum cum sanguine sacro Hostia caelestes pacificasset eros, Cat. 68, 76.—Of the gods, absol.: quod temere invitis suscipiatur eris, Cat. 68, 78.
hēros, ōis, m., = h(/rws, a demi-god, hero.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.—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.