Heraclius
Ἡράκλειος
(Ἡράκλειος), a cynic philosopher, against whom the emperor Julian composed an harangue. Suidas calls him Heracleitus (Ἡρά-κλειτορ). (Julian, Orat. vii.; Suidas, s. v. Ἰουλι- ανόρ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. ii. p. 626, iii. p. 519, vi. p. 727.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.