400 
H E R 
they be multiplied by 40, and 9 be added to the pro¬ 
duct, the fum will be a fquare number. 
HEPTAITE'DRON, f in geometry, a folid figure 
with feven equal Tides. 
HEPTAM'ERIS, J. [ewTcc, Gr. feven, and p Egij, a 
part.] A feverith part. 
HEPTAM'ERON, f. [tnrct, Gr. feven, and 
a day.] A.book in which the tranfadlions of one week 
are recorded. 
HEPTAN'DRIA,/ [from 5 rra, Gr. feven, and 
a man.] In botany,"the leventh clafs in Lipnaeiis’s fexual 
method, confidingof plants with hermaphrodite flowers, 
which have feven (lamina or male-organs. The orders 
are four, derived from the number of pidils, or female- 
organ’s. See'the article Botany, vol. iii. p. 256, 257, 
and the correfp.ondent Engravings. 
HEPTAN'GULAR, adj. in geometry, an appellation 
given to figures which have feven angles. See Geo¬ 
metry. 
HEPTAPHO'NOS, in Grecian architecture, a portico, 
which received this name becaufe the voice was re¬ 
echoed feven times in it. Pliny. 
HEPTAPHYL'LUM. See Alcbemilla, and Po- 
TENTILI.A. 
HEPTAP'OLIS, in ancient geography, a country of 
Egypt,, which contained feven cities. 
HEPTA,P'YLOS, a furname of Thebes in Boeotia, 
from its feven gates. , 
HEP'TARCH-Y , f. [ heptarchie , Fr. w rot, and Gr.] 
A. fevenfold government. , For the Saxon heptarchy, 
fee the article Eng land., voLvi. p. 544-548.—England 
began not to be a people, when Alfred reduced it into 
a monarchy; for the materials thereof were extant be¬ 
fore, namely, under the heptarchy. Hale. 
The next returning planetary hour 
Of Mars, who (bat’d the heptarchy of pow’r 
His (teps bold Arcite to the temple bent. Dryden. 
HEP'TATEUCH, f [wr*, Gr. feven, and ts« X o 5 , a 
book.} The five books of iYIofes, and the books of 
Jofluta and Judges. - 
HEPTHEMIM'ERIS, / in poetry, a verfe or line con¬ 
fiding of three feet and a half. See Hephthemimeris. 
HER, pron. [hejra, hep, in Saxon flood for their, or 
of them, which at length became- the female pofleflive.] 
Belonging to a female ; of a (lie ; of a woman : 
One month, three days, and half an hour, 
Judith held the fov’reign pow’r: 
Wond’rous beautiful her face ; 
But fo weak and fmall her wit, 
That (he to govern were unfit, 
Arid fo.'Sivfanna took her place. . Cowley. 
The oblique cafe of Jhe -■ 
The moon arofe clad o’er in light, 
With thoufand flars attending on her- train ; 
With her they rife, with Her they fet again. Cowley. 
Should 1 be left, and thou, be lofl, the fea, 
That bury’d Her I lov’d, fhould bury me. Dryden. 
HE'RA, a name of Juno among the Greeks. This 
was not originally a proper name, but a title, the fame 
as Ada of the Babylonians, and (ignified a lady, or qtreen. 
Heer, Herns, Heren, Haren, in many languages betokened 
fomething noble. Hence 'H^a, aAxi]. Hgauo?, QuaiXtuq* 
Hejy chins. 
HE'RA, a town of TEolia, and Arcadia. Paufanias. — 
Alfo a town of Sicily, called Hybla. Cicero . 
HERACLE'A, an ancient.city of Turkey in Europe, 
in Romania, wifh the fee of an arclibiihop of the Grecian 
church, and a fea-port. It was a very famous place in 
former times, and there are dill fome remains of its 
ancient fplendor. Theodore Lafcaris took it from Da¬ 
vid Comnenus, emperor of Trebifond ; when it fell into 
th.e hands of the Genoefe, but Mahomet II,. took it 
HER 
from them ; fince which time it has been in the poflef" 
fion of the Turks. It is near the fea. Lat.40. 27. N. 
Ion, 27.48. E. 
HERACLE'A, in ancient geography, a town of Si¬ 
cily, near Agrigentum. Minos planted a colony there 
when he purfued Daedalus ; and the town, anciently- 
known by the name of Macara, was called from him 
Minoa. It was called Heraclea after Hercules, when he 
obtained a victory over Eryx.—A town alfo of Mace¬ 
donia_Another in PontiTs, celebrated for its naval 
power, and its confequence among the Afiatic dates. 
The inhabitants conveyed borne in their fhips the ten 
thoufand Greeks on their return under Xenophon.— 
Another in Crete.—Anotherjn Partliia.—Another in Bi- 
thynia.—Another inPhthiotis, nearThermopylae,called 
alfo Trachinea, to didingtiifli it from the red.—Another 
in I.ucania.—Another in Syria.—Another in Cherfone- 
fusTaurica; and three in Egypt, 8 cc. There were no 
lefs than forty cities of that name in different parts .of 
the world, all biailt in honour of Hercules, whence the 
name was derived. 
HER ACLEI'A, f. in Grecian antiquity, a fedival at 
Athens, celebrated every fifth year, in honour of Her¬ 
cules. The Thilbtans and Thebans in Beeot'ia obferved 
a fedival of the fame name, in which they offered apples 
to the god. This cudom of offering apples arofe thus r 
It was always ufual to offer flieep, but the overflowing 
of the river Afopus prevented the votaries of the 
god from obferving it with the ancient ceremony : and,, 
as the word jlojAov dignifies both an apple and a flieep, 
fome youths, acquainted with the ambiguity of the 
word, offered apples to the god, with much /port and 
fedivity. To reprefent the (beep, they raifed an apple 
upon four dicks as the legs, and two more were placed 
at the top to reprefent the horns of the vidlim. Hercules 
was delighted with the ingenuity of the youths, and the 
fedivals"were ever after continued with the offering of 
apples. Pollux. 8. c. 9.—There was alfo a fedival at Si- 
cyon in honour of Hercules. It continued two days;, 
the fird was called orc/fta-ra?, the fecond —At a 
fedival of the fame name at Cos, the pried officiated 
with a mitre on his head, and in women’s apparel.—At 
Lindas a folemnity of the, fame name was alfo obferved; 
as well as in feveral other cities. 
HERA'CLEON, a famous fchifmatic, the leader of 
a branch of the Valentinian heretics in the fecond cen¬ 
tury. We have no information concerning the country 
which gave him birth. Irenaetis mentions him. and 
Ptolemy, in his arguments againft the Valentinians; 
and Clement of Alexandria fpeaks of him as one of the 
mod confiderable of Valentine’s followers.. There is 
great difficulty in afcertaining the precife time when he 
floui-ifhed. Bafnage places, him under the year 125.5 
and Cave under the 'year 126.. He is reprefented as 
having maintained the fame wild and v.ifionary notions 
with Valentine refpetling God and the origin of the 
world, &c. fuch as conceiving the Divine Nature to be 
a vad abyfs, in the pleroma or fulnefs of which exided, 
as emanations from the Fountain of Being, aeons of 
different orders and degrees; that from the union of 
Python, the fource of aeons, and a principle called Ennoia , 
or Sige, were produced Nous and Alethcia, and from thefe, 
in fuccellion, Logos, Anthropos, and Ecclef.a ; among the 
remote - defcendants of whom was Jefus Chriil, and 
below him the Demiurgus, or Creator, who held the 
mi s ddLe place between God and the material world, &c. 
To thefe lie added fome notions of his own ; as, that man 
confids of three parts, a body confiding of grofs matter, 
an animal foul, and a fpiritual and celedial fubdance 
derived from th e plerrna; that at death, the body being 
left to mingle with other parts of the material creation, 
The animal foul is transferred to the jur.ifdi'<5lion of the 
Demiurgus, and the-fpiritual fubdance returns to the 
feat of its high origin. And he directed his followers 
to 
