- Hercules

HERCULES. Called by the Greeks Heracles and Alcides, the most celebrated hero of the Mythological age of Greece. Hercules is depicted as a naked man holding a club, and his shoulders are enwrapped with a Lion’s skin.

                Hercules in his second labour, i.e. in close engagement with the Lernean Hydra, is borne in the coat of Herklots. < ELVN

Hercules Геркулес, эта фигура встречается в единственном гербе из всех, нами рассмотренных. Он представлен держащим квадрант.

«Azure, the figure of Hercules[in one blazon 'a savage'] wreathed about the head and middle with laurel-leaves, holding in the dexter hand a quadrant, and therewith looking towards a star in the dexter chief; and in the sinister hand holding a club all proper» – OSWALD, Scotland.

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