HER 
_ eacious in fcouring the mucilaginous glands, and preferving 
them from the lodgments o gritty matters, which occafion 
the gout and arthritic complaints, that they were deno- 
anima articulorum. ey alfo 
hey are now expun ged b seiliges 
both of London and Edinburgh from their oo en of 
officinals. 
HERMODE, in 'ythology, the name of a divinity wor- 
thipped by the ancient inhabitants of the North, or Goths ; 
€-was reputed to be the fon of Odin, the firft of their 
ods. 
HERMOGENEAN Cops, in Law. 
HERMOGENES, TiceLuius, in a cited by 
Horace, it. 30, L.-s. 
* Ut, quamvis tacet tie ee cantor tamen, atque 
ena ut modulat 
es Hlermoygenes fings no more, he is neverthelefs 
an Sent ie mutfician.’ 
' He was probably the fon or brother of lira a “ik 
mous mutician in the time of Cefar and Au wh 
mu have been an exquifite Ager ; for Horace righ his 
@btrufive companion fa ay: 
** Invideat quod et Hermogenes, ego canto.” - 
** T fing till I throw Hermogenes into defpair.”” — 
St. HERMoGENEs'’s Land, in Geography, an ifland on the 
oa 
t by the famous navigator Beering to bea 
15". E. long. 
e 
ing to the S.W. of it. 
and St. Sa ag 0 is placed among thofe which are defti- 
tute of wood. This sugenes was fully confirmed in Cook’s 
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NI TANS. a feck of anciert heretics, deno- 
ge leader eet who lived towards 
the clofe of the Sages cent 
ullian we learn, that he was ‘fkilled 
ainting ; and he feems to have been origin 
“s ‘Chriss, ae Ses learned and ingenious, but ignaty 
ous ; for though Tertullian, w nit him, 
intimates that of a Chriftian he became a a pil pher and 
floic, he not charge him with any vice. Hermogenes, 
ae denominated a heretic, does not ton to have forme 
were generally adopted. It 
re{pected the feriptures of 
ew Teitament, as other Chriftians of his time 
Pa F he Was an author, which is not improbable, we 
oe tah any of his writings ; and that none of 
remain, if thes. occafion of 
had b he. feed 
‘Vou. Seer on made | out oe skins 
‘and one of the four which 
ssc on the 
HER 
herd eg evil “ vite in it muft have been afcribed to the. 
ich, in his opinion, would have been a ree 
Pati on his ‘ (odeda But matter, out of which the 
world was made, being inherently evil, he fuppofed that he 
this vedigated the Supreme Bein ng. | ¢ 
one God fi 
a 
— 
Rae 
orld out of it. To this matter he 
aferibed all oe evil and all the defects which exiit in any 
creatures, Matter had always a confufed and irregular tur- 
Seat motion, but God wr ought order and be pauty, 5 wad pro- 
portion, out of that confufed and indigelted matter. It does 
not appear what were his conceptions concerning the pesfon 
of Jefus Chrift. Theodoret fays, he thought the bod 
Jefus was lodged in the fun, Although he taught od 
yod made the foul out of matter, he does not feem to have 
denied human liberty. ‘Theodoret informs us, that Hermo- 
nes believed that the deyil and demons would be again re~ 
fol ved into matter; from which they had arifen; 3 nor is it 
improbable that he might conceive the confluence of alte 
or fome part of it, to be the abyfs and place om 
alli aed to the devil and his angels at their 
Hence he appears to have beved a fase 
judg. 
pres and probably all the other great articles 
li 
of re- 
The 1e Opinions of Hermagenes, with: ‘regard to the origin és 
the world and the nature of the foul, were warmly oppofed 
Tertullian. 
ogenians were divided into feveral 
7 
ry 
erm branches, 
- under their A chieftains, viz. Hermiani, Selencisan, 
ateriari 
ee wil bare the Manichees alfo to have forong frova 
the Herm ardner’s Works, vol, ix 
HERM )GENIANUS,. ‘in Biogr, + mae nent jusifte 
flourifhed in the fourth century, published an « Abrid 
of Law,” in fix ae oer in which he follows t 
ee o ' Perpetual commences with the ane 
Adrian, and is highly foakes of by writers on the Roman 
law. Moreri. 
HERMON, in Ancient Geography, a mountain, or rather 
chain of mountains, of Palettine, i the tribe of Iffachar, on 
this lordan, S. of mount Tabor. It ar 
itsheight, and for being, like a eg capped with fnow, 
It was once oe for an ancient temple held in great yenera- 
tion, and much reforted to by the fuperititious hea ons 
all the neighbouring countries, and in the book of Plalms 
(Pf. cxxxni, 3.) for its refrething dews, yin defcended 
n the gene ng mount of Sion. St. Jerom tells us, 
that it was above the Paneas; that its {how no  ederied to 
"yre and Sidon, to be ufed in cooing liquers ; and 
the est it ta and Samavivens ftyle it th i¢ “ Mount of 
TERMONA SSA, a town of the Cimmerian Bof phorus, 
Pomponius Mela ey in thie 
peninfula.— Alfo, a town of Afia, in the Pontus Polemo- 
niacus, and on the fame gulf saa ie — 
HERMONAX, « a town which belonged to the ‘T'yrians, 
-coalt, and at. the mouth of the riveg 
o- 
z 
TEERMONIUS SINUS, a ot of Afia Minor, in the 
nei of Thrace, N.E. of the promontery. » ; of Bof- 
F HERMONTHIS, a town of of Bey and capita af 
the « gonoe Hermaothites, 7. howaded the of 
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