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Herculem

Herculem is a Latin form of hercules, meaning “Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena; (hercle, mehercule) by Hercules!, indeed!”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.119: elicerem ex te cogeremque, ut responderes, nisi vererer ne Herculem ipsum ea, quae pro salute gentium summo labore gessisset, voluptatis causa gessisse diceres. Quae cum dixisse …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.665: sí frugi est, Hérculem fécit ex patre:

All forms of hercules (declension table)

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