HER 
illing Cacus, the andes robber Italy 
Thefe feveral adventures are Beets and deferibed both 
by the ancient ftatuaries and 
It is obferved, that there are ae even of the twelve 
reat gods of aati that have fo many ancient mon 
holding the apples of the Hefperides in his hand. 
tue, asin all the other figures of him 
the breadth of his fhoulders, the fpacioufnet of his cheft, the 
largenefs of his fize, and the 
exprefs ftrength and a capacity of en 
which conftituted the chief idea o 
heathens. 
and his bow 
Sf eknes is reprefented by the ancients as an exemplar of 
_ virtue ; however, se Hercules bibax, or Drunken Hercules, is 
and 7. bear are defcribed both 
ndy uring great fatigue, 
His other attributes are his lion’s {kin, his club, 
principal cities of Greece, is fixed 
Thrafybulus, twenty-nine years before the taking of 
Hercules has [= particularly honoured by the Greeks, 
under the nam Mufagetes, the condudor of the Mufes, 
and at Rome sae shat of Hercules Mufarum. He is repre- 
on medals with a lyre in his hand; and the reverie is 
marked with the figure of the nine Mole with their proper 
er and Alcmena, above-me 
_ authors 
migrated 
Flog ge there, and 
ae Let die doe 6 
, he is formed, by” 
mnefs of his mufcles, to | 
virtue among the ancient cu 
province of Tava : ; 
HER 
a herd ; OF, oe 7” is e 
I Th was q ar ‘in Crete, ‘among i : 
dzi D aétyli, and oe sd is faid, inftituted the Olympic games. 
ion- 
HER 
by which they were infefted, than by the commerce they efta- 
- blifhed with them; which, without doubt, was cae fource ‘of 
ancient heroifm and war. ‘Thus it would appear that Her- 
os is the furname of the feveral Herculefes pratecasss by 
—— ; for the tease was called Phafius ; the Phoenician 
Defana : the Grecian Alceus or Alcides ; the 
"Hrrcutes's All-heal, in Botany. See A Hera- 
cCLEuM, and Pasrinaca. 
Hercuves’s Club. See ZANTHOXYLON 
sae sone s Pillars, in 1 Geography. See ‘Couumna: Her- 
HERCULEUS Mebnvus;i in Medicine, the epilepfy ; ae 
pea from the terror of its attacks, and the diffic ulty of 
_HERCYNIAN Forest, in Geography. See Henrci- 
HERD, ong Hunters, a company of affemblage of 
black or fallow Aertel in Loiirydlitinétion to flock. 
zy are various terms ufed for 
ah. rd of harts 
province of Hi 
HERDEW ch, in 
cient Law-books, a grange or place for cattle and huf- 
‘bandr 
“ Et —_ herdewycham apud Hethcotum in peco, &c.” 
Mon. Ang 
TERDICKE, or Marien Herpicke, in Geography, a. 
of Germany, i in the county of Mark, fituated on the 
Ruhr, containing three churches for the three religions, a 
noble fecular abbey for ladies, wah stop Catho! ‘and 
Proteftant ; 4 miles S.W. of Schwe 
[ERDING, among Sport/men, is the reverfe of breaking 
herd. * 
HERDOLA, in Gengraply, a TSE. of Pe ag 
DONTE, o seeerh in Ancient Geog 
a town of Italy, in Asli S.E. of Luceria, 1 pont 
which leads from Beneventum to Canufium. we 
ruins at a place called “ Hordona 
“HERDSMAN, a name applied to to denote t 
"i in tending Ce other 
of 5 ne ;: meee rus” melee “yg eiaaate * 
sifhed y their fingular — the excellent at 
nee of their fountains and 
of their foil, the abu 
and productivenefs i in in fics of every | kind, fo that they 
formed the moft agreeable ret apa 
conceive from the fummer heats part of the couutry 
‘ra fo fertile ad icy that t fried a ample f upply f 
ewe army in the time of its diftrefs. 
HERE ANNUM, in Antiquity, si fixty crown: 
which was exacted of a freeman, n m 
into the field, refufed to obey, ; to law of “ed 
Franks. This ex gfe » that, or ; 
to the faid law, both the obligation and the pevaty 
