HERO of a poem or romance, is the principal perſonage, or he who has the chief part in it. Thus the
hero of the Iliad is Achilles; of the Odyssey, Ulyſſes; of the Aeneid, Aeneas; of Taſſo's Jeruſalem, Godfrey of Boulogne; of Milton's Paradiſe Loſt, Adam; though Mr Dryden will have the devil to be Milton's hero, becauſe he gets the better of Adam, and drives him out of Paradiſe.