Heraclid

(her’a-klid), n. [ stricted to subsidiary functions. In the middle ages the Heraclide, ¢ Gr. ‘Hpardeidne, pl. ‘Hpakacwda, the herald was an important adjunct of armies and courts. His descendants, as they claimed, of Hercules, L. Hercules, in Gr. myth. the armorial bearings of his chief, and constituted an official dre which it was a high offense for another person to the most famous of the heroes: see Hercules. | a ume. As armorial bearings became a matter of careful A descendant of Heracles (Hercules); spec if i record, the herald was especially charged with the proper eally, one of the Heraclidan or Dorian aris toc depicting and blazoning of achievements, and with the suracy of Sparta, who claimed descent from Her per vision of the a umption of bearings by those who were entitled to them and their prohibition to others, and hence cules through his son Hyllus. Also Heraklid. with the genealogy of noble families and the descent of Heraclidan, Heracleidan (her-a-kli’dan), a. titles. At times questions of precedence, and of the mar and n. [« Heraclid + -an.] I. a. Of or per shaling of ceremonial proce ions and the like, were retaining to the Heracleide, or descendants of ferred to heralds. Compare pursuivant and king-at-arms. See Herald's College, below. Heracles (Hercules). An hawrawde hyes before, the beste of the lordes. On Suli’s rock, and Parga’s shore, Morte Arthure (E. Bi. T. 8.), 1. 8014. Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; The next Day after the Battel, French Heralds came to And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, ask leave to bury their Dead, and had it. The Heracleidan blood might own. Baker, Chronicles, p. 171. Byron, Don Juan, iii. 86 (song, st. 18). As I watched the gates, II, ». A Heraclid. Lodged on my post, a herald is arrived From Ceesar’s camp. Add is on, Cato, ii. 1. Also Herakleidan. The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the