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1 Hero
Hēro, ūs, f., = Hêrô.I.A priestess of Aphrodite, in Sestos, beloved by Leander of Abydos, who repeatedly swam to her across the Hellespont, but at length was drowned, Ov. H. 18 and 19; id. Am. 2, 16, 31.—B. II.One of the Danaïdes, Hyg. Fab. 170.—III.A daughter of Priam, Hyg. Fab. 90.
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