Translation
by Hercules!, good heavens!, really
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Examples
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Good heavens, well said.
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I really don't know.
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My word, your house is big.
, and are a man's oath, an appeal to Hercules that by Cicero's day meant little more than really or good heavens. Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae 11.6) notes that in good writers no woman says and no man says ; was used by both.
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