ἥρωες (heroes)

ἥρωες is an Ancient Greek form of ἥρως, meaning “hero”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1000: γηγενέων ἥρωες ἀρήιοι, ἠμὲν ὀιστοῖς

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 6.68.2: … τήσαντι δʼ ἡ παρὰ τῶν ἐπιγινομένων μνήμη. εἴη μὲν οὖν, ὦ Καπετώλιε Ζεῦ καὶ θεοὶ πόλεως ἐπίσκοποι τῆς ἡμετέρας ἥρωές τε καὶ δαίμονες, ὅσοι γῆν τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἐφορᾶτε, καλὴ καὶ συμφέρουσα πᾶσιν ἡ τῶν φυγάδων κάθοδος, καὶ ψευσθείην …

All forms of ἥρως (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.