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HIERMOPAN, in Ancient Mythology, a figure compofed 
fromit, and 59 miles from Lycopolis. Pliny calls it, by a 
jon of the Greek name into Latin, “ Mercuri Oppi- 
dum.”? According to Ammianus Marcellinus, this was a 
celebrated city. — : : 
Hermorowis, an epifcopal city of Afia, in Hauria. 
—Alfo, a town of Afia, in Carmania. 
~HERMOPOLITUS Nomos, a country of Egypt, in 
Heptanomis, bounded N. by the Cynopolite nome, E. by 
the Nile; S. by the Nycopolite nome; and W. by the 
mountains of Libya. Its opolis was Hermopolis 
Magna. 
HERMOSELLO, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 
yrovince of Leon, at the conflux of the Duero and the 
ormes 3 9 miles below Miranda de Duero. 
HERMOSIRIS, isa ftatue of Mercury and Ofiris, with 
the diftinG attributes of thofe divinities united ; viz. the ca- 
Mercury, and the head of an hawk with an eagle 
for- Ofiris. : ~ ee : : a 
HERMOSMENON, in the Greek Mufic, a term which 
priety, and fitnefs. It confifted in 
knowing how to chufe, upon all occafions, what 
to the mode or key, to the fubje&t, the rhythm, the melo- 
to no other theme oroccafion. _ : . 
HERMULES were two fmall ftatues of Mercury placed 
in the Circus at Ror : : hy Se 
ny? 
at Rome. : 
_ inhabited the eaitern extremity of Germany: ‘and rhe pele igre: bulk of the work. Seme of 
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the poffeffion of a falt-pit, they devotedthe hoflile army ta 
thefe deities. ‘Tacitus fays, that in procefs of time they be- 
came allics to the Romans, who diltinguifhed them above 
~ other Germans by peculiar privileges. 
HERMUPOA, in Botany, the name of an hexandrous. 
plant in Leefling’s Iter Hifpanicum, which he defcribes as’ 
naturally akin to Breynia, (meaning that of Plumier, which 
Linneus makes a Capparis,) but with a double perianth, 
"The flowers are fearlet. We do not find his defcription or 
name cited by Linnzus. 
HER » in Geography, a confiderable river of Afia 
Minor, which flowed from a mountain facred 
tion in Theffaly, founded on this gulf a town, 
Smyrna, after the name of bis wife, the gulf was denominated 
of Smyrna, a name which 
it flill retains. The river, as D’Anville fays, is called 
‘, Saravat,”? but according to M. Peyflonnel, “ Boue 
2? : 
in Ornithology. See HERon. : 
Hern [fland, in Geography, a {mall ifland on Pe if 
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HERNANDEZ, Francis, in Biography, a naturalif. 
and phyfician, who was fent out by Philip II. king of 
{pared 
objects as he 
their nature and properties, but it d 
lived to fuperintend the publication 
1651 the refult of his enquiries was edited at Rome under 
the care of the Lynczan academy, eftablifhed in that city 5. 
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ho in volumen digefta, a Johanno Terentio, Johanno 
tich to the memory of Hernandez, but to his editors on 
account. .What became of him is not recorded, but ° 
drawings were confumed by a fire in the Efcurial. 
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