HER 
5. H.cikata. Linn. — — fmooth. Leaves 
ovate, ciliated, downy beneath.—The ‘umbels of this are faid 
HENA, erg in Antiquity, a ftatue re- 
a Mercury and Minerva both in on 
ord is compound of Hermes, Mercary, and Athena, 
a Greek name for Minervd. 
Spon gives divers figures of Hermathenz, in his 
Rech. Cur. de P Antiquité, p. They are a fort of ftatues 
raifed on {quare pedeitals, after the manner of Herme, only 
_ the attributes of Minerva are added thereto. See Her- 
Es below 
HERMATHIAS, a daétylic air. . (See HARMATIAN 
Arr.) Dactylic isa name given, in Ancient Mufic, to that 
kind of air or nome of which the rhythm or meafure confifts 
of two equal notes. See RuyruM. 
They alfo called a nome daétylic in which this rhythm t 
was frequently ufed, as the Harmathian, and the Orthian 
nome. 
Julius Pollux doubts whether da&tylic implied the fort of 
inftrument, or the form of melody ; a donbt which is folved 
by what Ariftides Quintiliaius fays in his fecond*book, and 
which can only be underftood, by fuppofing that the term 
Aadylhe fignifies at once the inftrument and the air; as with 
us, fays Rouffeau, the words mu/fette and tambou 
HERMAUT, in Geography, a town of Peaivces: in the 
department of the Puy-de-Déme, and chief place of a can- 
ton, in the diftri&t of Riom; 8 miles W. S.W. of Ri 
The place contains 542, and the canton 3825 inhabitants, on 
aterritory of 1474 kiliometres, in fix communes. 
HERMENSDORYF, a town of Pruffia, in the province 
of Oberland; to miles E. of Holland. 
HERMENSTADT, or Szezeny, = capital of Tran- 
fylvania, fortified with a double wall and deep moat, and 
&tuated on the fide of the Szeben, which foon after runs 
into the pa eS 147 miles N. E. of Belgrade. N. lat. 4 
E.1 oe Wg 
: ER ERACLES, were ee a fiatue compounded 
of - figures of Mercury and Her 
pon — us atype of an SAS Rech. Cur 
de I’ Anti 6. fig. 13. The name, he obferves, was 
given to a divi rinity reprefented after the manner of Hermes, 
with the —— attributes of Hercules, viz. a lion’s fkin 
and a s he afcribes to the cuflom among the 
Grek of meg the ftatues of "Meeas and Hercules in 
and gymnafia, as both one and the other r pre-* 
the academy an 
fided over the exercifes of the you 
HE} 
without cee or ken and BEERS a the rth and Ro- 
= in their _— 
_ . Servius gives us the original thereof, in his Comment on 
the eighth book of the mea me fhepherds, fays he, hay- 
ing one day caught Mercury, called by the Greeks Hermes, an 
(fee INTeRPRETER,) afleep ona mountain, cut off his hands ; 
from he, as well as the mountain where the aétion 
ecame denominated Cyllenius, from xvAdocy maim 
ed: and ‘thenee — Servius, . ‘it is, that certain ftatacs 
without arm minated Hermefes or Herme. But 
this omitonte 3 the epithet of es contradicts moft 
_ of the other ancient authors; who derive it nee, that 
agi ale born at Cyllene, a city of Elis, or even on 
was done, bec 
HER 
the mountain ae itfelf, which had been thus called be=. 
fore him m. 
ie ‘ae uft 
any other place i in Pemneler: there were abundance of very: 
fignal ones in divers parts of the city, and they were indeed 
one of the principal ornaments of the place. They were alfo 
laced in the high-road s and crofs-ways, becaufe oe 
who was the courier of the gods, prefided over the hig 
ways; whence he had his ERS of 'Trivius, from trivium 3 
and that of Viacus, from v 
From Suidas’s account, deve: cited, it appears that the 
erms, fermini, ufed among us in the Loi takes: balconies, 
&c. of our buildings, take their origin from thefe Athenian 
ermefes; and that it was more proper to call them der- 
metes than termini, becaufe, though the Roman termini were 
fquare ftones, on which a head was frequently placed, yet 
they were rather ufed as land- marks and mere-{tones than as 
ornaments of uildin 
Hermes, in the Egyptian mythology, like Mercury in 
the Grecian, was the inventor of the lyre, to which he gave 
three ftrings, producing three rag founds, the grave; the 
mean, and the acute: the to winter, the 
mean to {pring, ae the acute to fam er. 
Among the various opinions of the ewoeal ancient writers 
who have mentioned the invention of the lyre, and confined 
it to the Egyptian Mercury, that of Apollodorus is the 
mott intelligible and probable. ‘ The Nile,’’ fays this writers 
‘‘after having overflowed the whole country of Egypt, when. 
it returned within its natural bounds, left on the fhore a great 
number of dead animals of various kinds, and, among 
pe a tortoife, the flefh of which being dried and watted by 
he tun: nothing was left within the fhell but nerves and car- 
Shee, and ehicts being braced and contracted iy —— 
were rendered fonorous ; Mercury, in walking a 
banks of the Nile, happening to ftrike his foot aaa the 
fhell of this tortoife, was fo pleafed with the found it pro- 
duced, that it fuggefted to hon the firft idea of a lyre, which 
he aftiec witht conftructed in the form of a tortoife, and ftrung 
it with the dried finews of dead animals.’ 
> ct aa a name given by fome aud to hermetic 
c ein “8 
RMESIAS, in Botany, a name given by Leefling to 
Pi ‘gems called Brownea by Jacquin “and Linneus. See 
NEA. 
HERMESKEIL, in Geogra hy, a Le of France, in 
the department of the — and chief place of a canton, ™ 
the diitri& of Birkenfeld. he place ‘conti 1061, 
the canton 15,892 see in 38 communcs. 
TIC, or Hermeticat Art, a name given t0 
chemiftry, ena fuppofition that Hermes Trilmegitus — 
the i ots of it, or that he excelled in it. See ALCHY a 
HEM 
We know but little of this Hermes; only that he was an 
ancient king o pt, a o Afcula- 
pius. Zozimus Benopaly mentions him as having wrote 
of natural thi i extant 
and me=_ 
by Marfham (in Chron. fac. sos to the 
