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An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a
place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules. |
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A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or
fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any
remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person. |
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The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or
the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as
Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the
Aeneid. |
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