mehercule

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

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.50: … tus est reperiatur; deinde, si plures improbi fuerint, hoc vobis, hoc populo Romano, iudices, confirmo, vitam mehercule mihi prius quam vim perseverantiamque ad illorum improbitatem persequendam defuturam.

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.