HER 
ftandards, and liberating from their thraldom a vaft number 
of captives. This career of fuccefs was fatal to Chofroes, 
who was depofed sy | his own fubjedts, and his fon placed on 
thé throne. A treaty of peace followed’ in 628, by which 
the new Perfian king reftored all captives, put an end to the 
perfecution of the Ch riftians, renounced his father’s con- 
quefts upon the Roman empire, and gratified the piety of 
Herat ius by the reftitution of the true crofs, as it was called, 
taken from Jerufalem. his precious relit was in the next 
year replaced by the emperor on a religious vifit to the holy 
{epulchre, an event which was the cau ival deno 
minated * The Exaltation of the Crofs.’’ ‘Towards the 
clofe of life; Heraclius engaged in religious controverfies, 
and withdrew from thofe aétive cares which fo glorioufly 
diftinguifhed the middle period of his life. He wasa zealous 
difciple of MonorHe.ism (which fee), to which he adhered 
as long ashe lived. He divided the fucceflion to the empire 
between his eldeit fon Conftantine, and Heracleonas, a fon 
y Martina, a fecond wife, his own niece. To this aét he 
had hy urged by the geste of his wife. Contatn 
fummoned to the palace to ratify or: atteft the aflociation 
of Heracleonas, and the impofition of the diadem was con- 
fecrated by the prayer and bleffing of the patriarch. The 
fenators and patricians, with their ufual fervility, adored the 
majelty of the great emperor, and the partner of his reign. 
he ceremonies were afterwards repeated in the ae 
and the concord of the — Sesihen was affectedly 
played by the younger leaning on the arm of the “der 
After this the emperor foon fall into a dropfical- diforder, 
which, as he was attempting to enforce his religious opinions, 
carried him off ia February G4," in the 31it year of his 
reign, Gib 
a FEA, Sepia: in men a — preven nae at 
gos in honour o re 
a defcription of the ceremonies attending this flemnity, in 
. Potter’s Archeol. G . tom. 1. Pp. 397- 
here was another fetlival of this dame, slcbeesd every 
fifth year in Elis, where net 8 matrons were appointed to 
weave a garment for the 
— were other isleihatien ar this nature. See Potter, 
loc. cit. 
Her ae in Anci-nt Geograply, a town of Arcadia, near 
the river Alp heus, S. W. of ‘Telphufa. Its fituation was 
i from Here 
Along the Alpheus were the horfe-courfes, the 
: mo dedicated to Bacchus, and a facred place 
in which were celebrated the Orgia. Patralfo had a temple 
th this towns After undergoing feveral viciflitudes, and at 
nour and seaibleisk Of this kind there were fe wie y 
the cae of Juno between the Sia facred to Argos, and 
nap ors fame, ” the 
ihe iene amos, conftratied a oar oe 
peror 38, 3 ; 
oe or kings of arms, heralds, and their refpective duties. 
, i Spelman hath ee ies provedy that this MS, 
HER 
Philaus, who, with Theodore of Samos, invented the art of 
making moulds of clay, which were caft in a font of brair 
for making ftatues.—Alfo, atown of Thrace, built by the 
Samians, and fituated near Perinthus. 
HER 
G 
town of European Turkey, in Romania, in which are the 
ruins of an amphitheatre, built by the emperor Severus, on 
the north coaft of the fea of ag the fee of a Greek 
archbifhop; 45 miles W.S. W: fi om Conftantinople. N. 
t. 40° 53" J 
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Ay a town of we in the province of 
Salant 30 miles N. W. of C 
LD, an officer of reser pibeea se in great 
pute, oa poffeffed of feveral confiderable funétions, rights, 
st neces They were a Ws to the fovereig¢n and the 
eat officers denominated Con — and Marfbal, (fee 
oan term) and executed their command 
The word herald, ong ing to Du- Cangas comes from 
the Saxon here, or German heer, army, and ald, fervant; be- 
caufe chiefly ferving in are army. Others will have the two 
words fignify champion of the army; in allufion to their office 
of denouncing war, proclaiming peace, &c. Dn-Can 
adds, that they were called c/arigarii, as well as st 
Borel — the word from the Latin herus, majler ; 
m his matter; others from herhaut ; qd. Sab 
a ‘isnt ad herald, which is ~ fame with dominus 
anus; and others, lattly, from heer, wat or or army 3 
dd 1 hold, q- d. bound to his lord, or the army. For a variety 
of conjeCtures with regard to the etymology of hie’ appella- 
tion we refer to Edmondfon’s * Complete Body of Heral- 
dry,” vol. i. p. 81—83. 
he origin of herald is very ancient; and the advocates of 
its antiquity pati detailed many fab bless ence it is — 
for us to recite. wage is repeclente 
herald of the Greeks, who had a voice Seeder a fifty 
men together. ‘The ies called them xnpuxss; and sipmogue 
anuees and the Romans feciales 
The Romans had a colle of heralds, Fp to de- 
eee whether a war were juft or unjuft; and to prevent its 
ing to open hoftilities, till ‘all m —— raed attempted 
re paecidintg the difference ina vasiitid 
As to the era of the appointment of ca lds, fome writers 
have septs isthe d with fuppoli ings that the office 
jo Be cont 
2 
as we have dete to 
and fome, without ag to this unwarrantable anti- 
quity, have affixed it at a muc ate. Astothe coun- 
try in which it originated, there is cor a — through. 
out Europe, not to exten nd our views to other quarters of . 
the globe, to which the firft inftitution of ear hath not 
aes attributed. In this —— fome have contended, 
office was firit by thofe people, from whofe 
enoage the appellation a herald is derived. But this kind 
of argument involves the difficulty of afcertaining its etymo. 
0; ZEneas Sylvius, in an epiftle written in the year 
refers toa MS. about heralds, which he had feen ia 
Ps. a 
ears before that time: and admitting the alleged anti- 
an rf of fuch a MS. it would lead us to allow the exiltence 
to be as early as the year 851; and it w peor an 
of 
em to vindicate the long and much fufpect ted genuinenefs of the 
about 
tournaments, faid to have been made by the 
