Usually means: Ancient Greek term for hawk.
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noun:  Hierax, or Hieracas, was a learned ascetic who flourished about the end of the 3rd century AD at Leontopolis in Egypt, where he lived to the age of ninety, supporting himself by calligraphy and devoting his leisure to scientific and literary pursuits, especially to the study of the Bible.
noun:  a Spartan admiral during the Corinthian War.
noun:  a Middle Platonist philosopher who flourished in approximately the 2nd century CE whose work On Justice survives in eight separate excerpts made by Stobaeus.


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