Ἡράκλεις (Herakleis)

Ἡράκλεις is an Ancient Greek form of Ἡρακλῆς, meaning “Heracles — the great hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἡρακλέης, “Heracles”.

Found 127 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.118: ἀλλὰ καὶ ἰσχάδα προτείναντος αὐτῷ ποτε καὶ ἐρώτημα, δεξάμενον καταφαγεῖν· τοῦ δέ, ὦ Ἡράκλεις, εἰπόντος, ἀπολώλεκα τὴν ἰσχάδα· οὐ μόνον, ἔφη, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἐρώτημα, οὗ ἦν ἀρραβὼν ἡ ἰσχάς. πάλιν δὲ ἰδὼν τὸν …

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 12·3: οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ τῶν βασιλέων οὐκ Ἀπόλλωνες μὲν ἂν μινυρίσωσι, Διόνυσοι δʼ ἂν μεθυσθῶσιν, Ἡρακλεῖς δʼ ἂν παλαίσωσι προσαγορευόμενοι καὶ χαίροντες εἰς ἅπασαν αἰσχύνην ὑπὸ τῆς κολακείας ἐξάγονται;

All forms of Ἡρακλῆς (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.