Hiero, onis, A king of Sicilie, whych was like a priuate person, very rude and homely, and of his nature intractable and sierce. But after he became sicke, and ceassed from businesse, (the feuer nowe and then taking hyin,) he became a manne of good manners and honourable. And in the meane tyme that hee was not vered with the feuer, hee fell to learning. Wherefore being recouered, he vsed the companie of Simomdes, Pindarus, Baccilides, moste excellent Poets at that time liuing: who in their writings brought his name in an honourable remembraunce. An other of that name of Athens, was familiar friende and scholer with Nieias.Hieroceps.An yle in Cypres neere to Paphus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Hĭĕro, ōnis, m., = *(ie/rwn. I.Ruler of Syracuse, a friend of the poet Simonides, Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60; 3, 34, 83.—II.A son of Hierocles, and ruler of Syracuse in the latter half of the third century B.C., a friend of the Romans, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 59; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 12, 49; Liv. 21, 49; 22, 37; 24, 4; 26, 40; Just. 23, 4, 1; Sil. 14, 80.—Deriv. Hĭĕrōnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Hiero: lex frumontaria, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, 32 sq.; 2, 2, 60, 147; 2, 3, 6, 14 sq.