Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Heroum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HERO'UM (ἡρῷον). A sepulchral monument, built in the form of an aedicula, or small temple. (Inscript. ap. Mur. 889. 8. Plin. H. N. x. 6.) Monuments of this kind originated with the Greeks, and in the first instance were only erected in honour of their deified heroes; which explains why the temple was taken as a model; but subsequently they were extensively adopted by private individuals, as may be inferred from the frequent representations of them on fictile vases and sepulchral marbles. The example (Heroum/1.1) annexed is copied from a marble slab in the Museum at Verona, which served as the monument of a Greek lady, named Euclea, the daughter of one Agatho, and wife of Aristodemon, as the epitaph inscribed upon it in Greek characters testifies.

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  Heroum/1.1