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heroum

heroum is a Latin form of heros, meaning “hero, demigod”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.12: … deravi, qui suo quodam more loquitur, ut omnia verborum momentis, non rerum ponderibus examinet. Illorum fuit heroum eam virtutem, quae est una, si modo est, maxime munifica et liberalis, et quae omnis magis quam sepse diligit …

All forms of heros (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.