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1635 he was appointed afliftant to the famous Bollandus, 
in compiling the immenfe work entitled AEla SanElofum. 
After, the death Of Bollandus in 1665, when only five 
volumes of that work had made their appearance, father 
Daniel Papebroch Was alTociated with Henfchenius in 
the tafk of continuing it. By their joint labours, The 
Dives of:the Saints in the month of March were piiblifh-. 
ed in 1668, in 3 vols. folio; thofe of the month of April, 
in 1676, in 3 vols. folio; and thofe of the firft fixteen 
days of the month of May, in 1680, in 3 vols. folio. Of 
the extent to which this work has been fihce carried, 
we have already made mention tinder the article Bol¬ 
landus, vol. iii. p. 157, Father Henfchenius died in 
1681, when upwards-of eighty years of age. 
HEN'SIN, or Hensin.gen, a town of the duchy of 
Luxemburg : twelve miles eaft-north-eaft of Bagftogne. 
HEN'SKEM, a town of Prullfan Lithuania: feven 
miles north-north-eaft of Gumbinnen. 
HEN'TEN (John), a learned‘Dominican monk in the 
Tixteemh century, born at a village near Thuin in Hai- 
naulr, in 1499. Having bccafiort to vifit Portugal, he 
became a member of th? Hermits of St. Jerome. Re¬ 
turning afterwards into Flanders ; he entered into a Do¬ 
minican monaftery at Louvain, where he died in 1566, 
with the character of being an able divine and excel¬ 
lent critic. He was created dodtor of divinity in 1551, 
and afterwards elected prior of his monaftery. He pub¬ 
lifh ed, I. Euthymius Zigab, m/i, in IV. Evetng. 2. CEcume- 
nius in AEla Apojlolorum, D. Paulum, B Canonicas Epijiolas. 
3. Arcthras in Apocalypfin, Be. He was alfo the editor 
of Biilia Sacra Vcrjionis vulgata ?, cum Interpretationibus He- 
braicorum Nominum , printed by Pkintin in 1565, in 5 vols. 
161110. on fo beautiful a type, that a very high price has 
been given for copies in good prefervation; and he had 
■ a principal (hare in preparing the edition of the Lou- 
vain Bible, which was firft publifiied in 1547,. and after¬ 
wards in 1583, under the title of Biblia Sacra vulgatee Edi¬ 
tions, cum varits LeElionibus Jokannis Hentcnii, & T/ieolo^orum 
Lovanienfium, Be. cum Figuris Aineis, in folio. To° this 
work he was appointed by the faculty of theology, in 
confequence of an order from the,emperor Charles V. 
HENT'ING, f. in hufbandry, a method of fowirig 
before the plough. 
HENTION'ITAN, an iftand in the north-eaft part of 
Lake Huron. 
HEORD'WERCH,/. The fervice of herdfmen done 
at the will of their lord. 
HEP-TREE. See Rosa' canina. 
HE'PAR, f. [tjoraj, Gr. probably from *133, ckebar 
gall, Heb.J The liver. 
HEPAT'ERUS, f. [from wrrxq, Gr. the liver.] The 
medical term for a fpecies of dyfentery, where pieces of 
dark coloured ftefh are difeharged refembling bits of 
the liver. 
HEPAT'IC, or HepaticAL, adj. [ hepaticus , Lat. hi- 
patique, Fr. from «?r«g.] Belonging to the liver.—If the 
evacuated blood be florid, it is ftomach blood ; if red 
and copious, it is hepatic. Harvey. —The cyftic gall is 
thick and intenfely bitter ; pile hepatic gall is more fluid, 
and not fo bitter. Arbuthnot. 
HEPAT'IC AIR. See Aerology, vol. i. p. 158- 
HEPAT'ICA. See Anemone, Asperula, Jun- 
germannia, Marchantia, and Riccia. 
HEPATICOl'DES., See J ungerm’anNia. 
HEPAT'ICS,/[trom,s- a? , Gr. the liver.] Medicines 
appropriated to difeafes of tiie liver. 
HEPAT'ICUS, f. in mineralogy, a genus of calcare¬ 
ous earths, which, when rubbed, give out an odour like 
liver of fulphur; whence its generic name. See the ar¬ 
ticle Mineralogy. 
HEPAT1 RRUCE'A, f. [from ntrcip, Gr. the liver, and 
»su, to flow.] A diarrhoea produced by acrid bile. 
HERAT]' l’ES, f. [from wrxp, the liver.1 A precious 
ftone of a liver colour. 
HEP 
HEPA'TITIS,/[Greek.] An inflammation of the 
liver. 
HEPATI'ZON,/ [Greek.] Brown itchi'ngmorphew ; 
fo called becaufe it is of a liver colour. 
HEPATOCE'LE, / [from r.icx p, Gr. the liver, and 
urM, a rupture.] A rupture of the liver. 
HEPATO'RIUM. See Bidens and Coreopsis.. 
HEPATOSCO'Pl A,/[of wrxp,Gr. liver, and cnovta, 
I confider. ] In antiquity, a fpecies.of divination, wherein 
predictions were m de by infpeCting the livers of animals. 
The term is alfo.ufed as a general name for divination 
by intrailsf 
HEPE'TIS. See Pitcairnia. 
HEPHAES'TIA, in Grecian antiquity, a feftivaf in 
honour of Vulcan (H tpx^of) at Athens. There was 
then a race with torches between three young men. 
Each in his turn ran a race with a lighted torch in his 
hand, and whoever could carry it . to tiie end of the 
courfe befbre.it was extinguilhed, obtained the prize. 
They delivered it one to the other after they finiftied 
their courfe, and from that circuniftance we find many 
allufions in ancient authors,:.who cbmpare the viciftrtudes 
of human life, to this delivering of the torch, particu¬ 
larly in thefe lines of Lucretius: 
Jnque brevifpatio mutahturfacia animdntuin 
Et quafi curfores vitai lampada tradunt. 
HEPH/ES'TIA, in ancient geography, the capital 
town of Lemnos. 
HEPHZESTPADES, a name applied to the Li pari 
ifles as facred to Vulcan. 
HEPHZES / TII, mountains in Lycia, which are fet 
on fire by the lighted: touch of a burning torch. Their 
very hones burn in the .middle of water, according to 
Pliny. 
HlfPH^ES'TION, a Greek grammarian of Alexandria 
in the age of the emperor Verus. There remains of his 
compolitions a treatife entitled Enchiridion de Metris B 
Poemate, the beft edition of which is that of Pauw, 4to. 
Utrecht, 1726. 
HEPHAESC TION, a Macedonian chief, famous for 
his attachment to Alexander. He accompanied the 
conqueror in his Afiaiic conquefts, and was fo faithful 
to him, that Alexander often obferved that Craterus 
was the friend of the king, but Hephseftion the friend 
of Alexander. He died at Ecbatana 325 years, before 
the Chritlian era. Alexander was fo inconfolable at the 
death of tins faithful general, that he ftied tears at the 
intelligence, a id ordered the facred fire to.be extin- 
guifhed, which was never dyone but at the death of a 
Perlian monarch. The phylician who attended He- 
phaeftion in his illnefs, was accufed of negligence, and 
by the king’s order inhumanly put to death, and the 
games were interdicted. His body wasentrufted to the 
care of Perdiccas, and honoured with the-moft magni¬ 
ficent funeral at Babylon. He was fo like the king in 
features and ftature, that he was often fainted by the 
name of Alexander. See the article Greece, vol. viii. 
p. 940. 
HEPH.CESTI'TES, [from »j<paij-o;, Gr. fire.] A pre¬ 
cious (tone of a fire colour. 
HE'PHER (Land of,) oneof the ftationsof Solomon’s 
purveyors. 1 Kings iv. 10. 
HE'PHERI 1 E, a defeendant of Hepher. 
HEPHTHEMIM'ERIS, f. [from £7 ttx, Gr. feven, 
np-icrvc, half, and p>.ep of, part.] In the Greek and Latin 
poetry, a fort of verierconfifting of three feet and a fyl- 
iable j that is, of feven half feet. ' Such are moll of the 
verfes in Anacreon: 
®t\cj 1 heyiu I Arps i 1 Sbtf 
®cfa> I <5e j p.ov x I hm, Sic. 
And that of Aiiftophanes, in his Plutus: 
E7r£(r0E ftETpi xfitpot. 
They are til fo called trimetri cataleElici. 
Hephthemimeris, 
