HER 
latter donee ies ie and naioienie ufed the Romans 
among whom they lived, to w affiftance Anaftafius 
marched with = troops, and on this PS molt of the 
Heruli were cut to pieces. Thofe who efcaped, promifing 
to craig the empire as faithful fubjects, were fuffered to 
continue i ie: arenes beh had been prac affigned 
pire. But as er affifted him in his war he was et 
to them ; and in his reign many of them became profelytes 
to Chriitianity ; pr the change of their religion made no 
ehange in their manners; for, according to Procopius, they 
were the molt wicked, the moft treacherous and avaricious, 
and the motft addiéted to érunkennefs, and all kinds of 
lewdnefs and debauchery, of all nations. Soon after the’ 
death of Juflinian, they were fubdued by the Lombards, 
and lived partly fubje& to them, and wiemes to the neigh- 
bouring nations. 
HERVORDEN. See- HErRForD 
HERWART, Joun Gzoreg, in Biography, we seeds 
of Bavaria, who flourifhed in the early p 17th 
by accurate and extenfive obfervation, rbroug t practice 
toa a great ere of perfeétions On s return to France, 
ed an immenfe fortune. Nor te — lefs eft or cahe 
qualities of his heart, being a man of great benevolence and. 
Lberality, compaffionate and attentive to the poor, and faith- 
ful in all the relations of private life. According to Devaux, 
he died- on the 12th of May, 15993 We Ambrofe at 
affirms that he was not living in the year 
1585. 
ile 
writing which he left is a work on the fubjegt — oe iy i . The Works and Days” en cing a 
to which he chiefly direéted his poate : La 
Curatoire de la Maladie Venerienne,”’ &c. Paris 1 oh: I eo 
1634, in 8vo. [t is the firit treatife written in French on 
’ that fubje&, and was chiefly compiled from the Italian works 
which had preceded it. Eloy Diét. Hitt. 
HERZBERG, in Geography, a town of Weftphalia, i in 
the ona of Grubenhagen, near the Hartz mountain, 
mannfaGtures of arme-aid iron: tools 5 tome 
S. of ee 
HERZELE, a town of, France, in the department iu autho 
the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of <8 
- The place contains 1295, and the canton 15,210 
a on a territory of 1 00 kiliometres, in meiosctnenied 
munes, 
—— Heneke, ox St Salas a town, of 
Seg vw piece pet o M sa 
¢ t is fortified, and is the refidence a cifh governo 
buy a steat part of the duchy belongs belongs to Italy 3 80 miles 
XV 
HES 
S.5.W. of Belgrade. N. lat. 43 ° g0!, E. long. 18 20°, 
The chief towns of the duchy are N arona, or Narenta, form- 
erly the — Imos, Varbofania, Moftar, and~Klinova. 
HESAUTTA, a town of Bengal; 24 miles north of 
oree, 
ESDIN, i in Geography, a town of France, and feat of a 
tribunal, in-the department of the Straits of Calais, fituated 
on the Canehe, built in the form of a regular hexagon, 
itrongly fortified, and almott furrounded with marfhes ; 12 
miles '$.E. of Montreuil. N. Jat. 50° 22'.. E, long. 2° 7!, 
The town contains 3792, and the canton 12 619 inhabitants, 
on a territory of 1 1574 Re rss in 24 communes. O/d 
He ee is three miles S.E. o , 
HES » In Ancient Cheprini, a town of Paleftine, 
the capital of the tribe of Reuben. It was- - the boundaries 
of the tribe - Gad. (See Joth. xxi. 39.). It had been the 
royal city of the Amorites; but after its capture by the 
Ifraelites it became one of the Levitical cities... Hefhbon, or 
Helbon, is 35 miles s E. of Jerufalem 
HESHUSIUS, Fianaenin 3 in Biography, noted for 
his violence againft the Calvinifts, was born at Wefel, ia 
the year 1526. So great was his PcBtsadeys in literature 
and theology, that, when very young, he was appointed pro- 
feff i 
he exhibited that eagernefs of temper for which he has been 
noticed by biographers, and on account of which he was 
deprived of fome lucrative pofts which he ang at Heidelberg. 
He w was afterwards invited into Lager and: appointed 1 
Hi 2 
but having written a treatife againft Beza, in which 
advanced “the abfurd pofition, ‘that “the fiefh of Jefus Chrift, 
in abftraéto, is adorable,’’ he was accufed, before a fynod, of 
maintaining a-moft erous propofition, and was ordered 
to retraét it, which he refufed, and was raise, 4 banifhed. 
= died at Helmitadt in 1588. His img rae works pues 
lms ; 
entaries on the y aia 
. Comm 
Fal Epiftles ; 4. On Juftification and the Lord's ‘Supper. 
HESIOD, ; in aphy, an ancient Greek poet, Os 
pofed by fome to. a been a contemporary with Homer, 
though others have dated the era in which he flourifhed a 
century later. He was probably born at Cuma, in A®olia, 
but removed in his infancy with his father to Afcra, a {mall 
town in Bot Thofe who contend that he was a con- 
temporary of Homer affirm, that he even ‘ob 
prize in a with —_ He is, at any fic the firft 
that is n to have written a poem on PD del a 
f rural occupations; but be 
ae are given to the cultivator of ae peels reader is gra- 
pg 403 a — of moral en sagen of a Socrates 
port much art oe elgg} yet it has been 
iy eeemed for the faithful account it. gives of the 
oe nf The field of Herel vg agree 
eee I. m, in which it is imagined the 
t of a much larg 
vcctca. Fached: ia deeb. tosbotre a. — other 
corks, which are loft. He is admired gance of - 
iin a i. eetnefs of his poetry. shen 
preg verfes eee sa wenn onder 
fes of which the poet was a prielt. 
pri we shes orgics, has imitated the manner of 
his celebrate Sons a er 
Vi ee 
thoug far beyond the modgl in every 
kid excellence rile Gaoeks, wc partial to the 
o 5E poetry 
