Hercules
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Hercules englanniksi
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 12 labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
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(quote-book) Charles Harper,(nb...)|year=1698|page=332|passage=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''.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) John Nutt,(nb...)|year=1705|page=166|passage=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''.
(quote-book) J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper(nb...)|year=1750|page=70|passage=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.
(quote-book)|volume=III|location=London|publisher=(...) R. Davis,(nb...); L. Davis,(nb...); and W. Owen,(nb...)|year=1769|page=227|passage=''Supporters''. Two Herculeſſes, with clubs over their ſhoulders, ''proper'', crined and habited about the middle, ''or''.
(quote-book) & Davies|Thomas Cadell, Jun. and William Davies,(nb...)|year=1795|page=258|passage=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.
(quote-book) Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,(nb...)|year=1838|page=453|passage=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.
(quote-book)&93;|title=Slavery, as It Relates to the Negro, or African Race, Examined in the Light of Circumstances, History and the Holy Scriptures;(nb...)|location=Albany, N.Y.|publisher=C. Van Benthuysen and Co.|year=1843|page=VII|passage=(nb...)—Hercules—Was Nimrod, the grand-son of Noah, and the origin of all the fabled Herculesses of all the early nations—(nb...)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Weale (publisher)|John Weale,(nb...); and (...) Henry Renshaw,(nb...)|year=1848|page=25|passage=Our great cities have become so many Augean stables, for the removal of whose filth as many Hercules are required.
(quote-book)|year=1884|page=112|passage=“(...) 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!
(quote-book) 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 (..)
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A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero. It lies between the constellations Lyra and Borealis.
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