god
Hercules
Hercules, the hero-god whose death in Spain, in the African legend Sallust reports, scattered his polyglot army across North Africa to seed its peoples.
Reading notes
- The Jugurthine War §18 Hercules
The hero-god whose death in Spain, in the African legend Sallust reports, scattered his polyglot army across North Africa to seed its peoples.
- The Jugurthine War §89 Hercules the Libyan
The local Punic-Libyan Heracles (Melqart), credited as founder of Capsa; the Greeks and Romans identified him with their own Hercules.
- The Histories §Phil.5 by Hercules
Mehercule, a common Roman oath invoking Hercules; a mild asseveration, not a religious appeal.