hercle

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

Found 808 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.145: … ei cum responsum esset fieri non posse, multos testis esse dicturos, me praeterea causae non defuturum, licet hercle, inquit, omnes omnia dicant, in illo, nisi ita res manifesta erit adlata ut responderi nihil possit, vicimus.

Terence, Adelphi 5.9.976b: Hercle vero serio,

Plautus, Asinaria 2.3.405: Siquidem hércle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus incedit,

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.