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tbernt by pirates, who defolated the Rome empire in the 
time of Pompey, and who were deftroye 
year 67: B.C. This town had fei 
ments; e g. a temple of V: ie berkr ye: Pontia and 
j 1¢ protecirefs of fe ports; a temple 
of Bacchus bicoalenin in wibich: 9 were celebrated ever 
year mufical combats, and here-alfo were diftributed 
prizes to the beit n avigators and oo ; and a temple 
of Diana = jai i in which was a bronze figure of Nep- 
tune feated Near this. town was a gulf of 
Pelo eaeeleu. named “ Hermionicus Sinus 
HERMISIUM, a town of the Veari- oo 
stunted near the Cimmerian Bofphorus, N. of Bofpho 
MIT; Eremtt, or Eremira, a devout ident re- 
tired into folitude, to be more at leifure for prayer and 
psy Aap and to difencumber himfelf from the affairs 
of the world. 
The mind is formed from the Greek ‘tu, erem 
-wildernefs ; and according to the etymology fhould sth 
be written eremit, the fpirit being foft 
An hermit is not reputed a religious, unlefs he have 
made the vow 
Paul, Fenatncd the Hermit, Paulus en, towards 
the clofe of the fecond century, is Sorieages rec 
firft hermit; though St. Jerom, at the beginning of the 
life of that faint, fays, it is not Lae who was the firft. 
Some go back to John the Baptilt, and others to Elias. 
thers make St. Anthony the founder of the hermit- 
‘bais, where he Ag during the fpace of ninety years, a 
life more worthy of a favage animal, than of a rational 
ing. Neverthelefs this unfociable manner of life was ve 
common in Egypt, Syria, India, and pray gags not 
only long before his time, but even before coming 
* of Chrift ; 
rift; and it is ftill praétifed among ‘he Mahome- 
tans as well as Chriftians, in thofe dry and burning cli- 
mates: for the glowing stinafphee: that furrounds thefe 
countries is a natural caufe of _— love of folitude and 
everal of the ancient hermits, as St. Ant nthony, &c. 
Ps they li = in deferts, had yet numbers of religious 
accompanying t 
There are alfo Sess orders and congregations of religious, 
aiftingui ithed by the title of hermits; as, hermits of St. 
Au sie of Js John Baptift, of St. Jerom, of St. 
“Paul, 
repeat “af St. Auguftine, is a religious order, more 
frequently called Auguitins, or Auttin-friars. See Av- 
GUSTIN, 
Sixatets of Brittini, was a congregation formed w 
pope — IX. who gave them the rule of St. Aut. 
tine. 
Their firft hermitage or abode was in a folitary 
oie Briteaa in the marquifate of Ancona: whenc 
They a very auttere life : they never 
sient, "and faited much. 
enmits of Camaldulia, See CAmanpuLiaNs., 
ERMITS of St. oe See JERONYMITES, 
Blnce, 
ae ens 
ned the th 
ry onthe N. coaft, a little S. of Madan’ 
See I 
HER 
Hermits of St, John Bapti/, was a religious otder in mH 
varre, whofe principal convent, or hermitage, was lane 
leagues from Pax eee 
Til the time of Gre 
of laura, rather than a ebayer 
cantoned out into cells, in which they lived folitary in the 
a. 
Hermits of St. Paul, the firfk hermit, is an order formed 
in the 13th century, by the union of two bodies of hermits in 
Hungary, wiz. thofe of St. James de Patach, and thofe of 
ifilia near Zante. 
Upon being incorporated, they chofe St. Paul, the firk 
hermit, for the common patron and prote¢tor of their order, 
nd aflumed his name. ‘Chey pe big confiderably 
- Hungary, Germany, Poland, and o ovinces ; “an 
t length, came to have najahecee in Hun 
eB ; but the revolutions and wars in that kingdom reduced 
em ee 
HERMITAGE properly fignifies a little hut, or habita- 
tion, in defart place, where a hermit dwells. 
ERMITAGE is alfo popularly attributed to any religious 
cell, built and endowed in a private and reclufe place, and 
thus 4 Sune to fome large abbey, of which the fuperior was 
called herm 
Herm soe in Geography, a town of Weft Florida, on 
me S.W. fide of the river Miffiflippi ; 7 miles S.W. of New 
eans,. 
HERMIT?’s Bay, a bay on the ifland of St. Chrifophes 
s point. 
HERMITE's IsLanps, a group of iflands of unequal 
extent, fituated before Naffau bay, at the fouthern extre- 
mity of Terra del Fuego. This name is derived from Mya- 
heer Hermite, admiral of the Dutch fleet, in the year 1624 
ape Horn. 
Titles or Beram, atown of Iftria; 28 miles S. of 
1 aig aa a or Snake-headed Iris, in Botany. 
He aeons inthe Materia. Medica, a drug ufed as 
rmoda€tyl isa root about the fize of a little chef- 
nut, in figure refembling a heart ; ruddy without, very white 
within; of a light fungous fubftance, without fibres 5 ealily 
broken, and reducible into a powder like flower ; of a 1 
if taite, but fomewhat vifcid. It is brought to us we dried 
from Egypt, Syria, and-Turkey 
Thefe have been too ai gece heed a fruit, but mh A 
are unqueftionably a root, and feem to be the jj. 
that fpecies of meadow-faffron, called by authors ne 
6 Clin foribus Sritillaria infar oats f Soltis. wi 
latis Sy O 
sg ah flowers ge bee like thofe of the fritilary- 
ey were in t ufe among the ancients 
but their plana? is very fhe tedious, and co 
and therefore they have been cea quicke 
aloes and other cathartics. tt 
times ufed, mixed with jalap, in rhe umatifms. 
men of Egypt eat the frefh roots jeeboa to 
He ermodaétyls were chiefly ufed to purge pituitous 
mours of the brain and joints A They- were wees 
