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.
Herôum, herói, pen. prod. n. g. Cic.A monument or toombe erected to the remembraunce of some noble mans excellent vertues.
Herôus, pe. prod. Adiectiuum: vt, Heroi pedes quibus in carmine heroico vtimur. Cic. Heroi carminis opus. Propert.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.