HER 
ere is fome- 
t and good in the hero, which in the 
eourfe of the poem, make us concerned for him; fo that, 
acquaintance, we cannot leave him mifer- 
able without fome anxiety : which is not the final bufinefs of 
the poet to raife. See Epic poem. 
Bernardin 
jaculandifque Liber,”’ publithed with notes by Baldi: 
ciendis 
“ Spiral,’ 
thematicians.”? 
flourifhed under the reign of 
was author of “ De Machinis Bellicis:’’ ‘ CGeodeefia:” 
«« Liber de Obfidione Repellenda et Toleranda ;” and «De 
Vocabulis Geometricis et Stereometricis.”” oreri. 
Hero, North, in Geography, an ifland in lake Champlain, 
which is a townfhip annexed to Chittenden county, in Ver- 
mont, 13 miles long and 2 broad, and contained, in 1790, 
£25 inhabitants. 
Hero, South, an ifland in the fame lake, belonging 
to the fame-county, which is‘a townfhip and port of entry, 
and contains 678 inhabitants; it is 14 miles long, and 34 
broad. The Heros are furrounded by feverat {mall ifles. 
‘This ifland produces good crops of wheat and other grain. 
{nit is a quarry of blueifh grey marble, which has the ap- 
pearance of being a petrifaction of ‘feollops, a fpecies of 
fhell abounding in the vicinity of the lake, together with the 
common earth of the fhore, which is of a marley fubftance. 
South Hero was divided, in 1798, into two townhhips, the 
fouthernmoft retaining its original name, and the northernmoft fr 
that of * Middle H and containing 621 inhabitants. 
Hero, in Fabulous Hiflory, a priettefs of Venus, who 
lived at Abydus, in a tower fituated on the banks of the 
Hellefpont. Her lover 
Y e la Nauze. 
A\cad. des Infcript. tom. vii. Hift. p- 74. Mem. 240. 
HEROD, in Biography, furnamed the Great, king of t 
' Jews, fecond fon of Antipater the Idumzan, was born in the 
bat » 71. At the age of 25 he was made by 
is father governor of Galilee, and diftinguifhed himfelf by 
the fup of a band of robbers, wicket the-execution of 
ir kiah, and feveral of his comrades. he 
had performed this a¢t of heroifm by his own authority, and 
had executed the culprits without the form of trial, he was 
fummoned before the Sanhedrim, but through the ftrength of 
caped any cenfure, 
is party and zeal of his friends, he ef 
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HER 
In the civil war between the republican and Cefarian pars ° 
ties, Herod joined Caffius, and. was made governor of Ceele. 
fyria, and when Mark Antony arrived victorious in Syria, 
Herod and his brother found means to ingratiate themfelveg, 
with him, and were appointed as tetrarchs in Judea, but ina 
fhort time an invafion of Antigonus, who was aided by the . 
Jews, obliged Herod to make his efcape from Jerufalem, and 
retire firft to Idumza, and then to Egypt. . He at length 
arrived at Rome, and obtained the crown of Judea upon oce 
cafion of a difference between the two branches of the Afmo- 
dean family. Hyrcanus had been for a confiderable time 
prince and high prieft of the Jewifh nation; but whilft the 
oman empire was in an unfettled flate, after the death of 
moved by the recommendations of Mark Antony, conferred 
the kingdom of Judea upon Hered himfelf. Having met 
with this unexpeéted fuccefs at Rome, he returned without 
delay to Judea, and in about three years got poffeffion of tlie 
whole country. He had, however, to fight his way to the 
throne, which, as we have feen, was in the poffeffion of Anti 
gonus; though aided by the Roman army, he was obli 
to lay fiege to Jerufalem, which held out for fix months, when 
it was carried by aflault, and a vait flaughter was made of the 
inhabitants, till the interceffion and bribes of Herod put 
anend to it. Antigonus was taken prifoner and put to 
death, which opened the way to Herod’s quiet poffeffion 
of the kingdom. His firft cares were to replenith his coffers, 
and to reprefs the faétion ftill attached to the Afmodean 
race, and which regar im : 
guilty of many extortions and cruelties in the purfuit of 
thefe objeéts., afte 
againft Herod before Mark Antony by Cleopatra, who had 
been influenced to the deed by his mother-in-law Alexandra. 
ummoned to anfwer to the charges exhibited 
nd on this occafion he 
cruel order concerning her. His ra 
put Jofeph to death for communicating the fecret 
to him alone, and he threw his mother-in-law, Alexandra, 
y 
ing the former, but he was obliged firit to engage’ 
king of Avehis, whom he defeated and obliged to mi a 
= After the battle of sine his great rs ean : 
make terms with the conqueror, and, as a prelimmary "Tr? | 
put to death Hyrcan, the only farviving male of the Afmode- 
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