HER 
foil th-we ft fide of the river Mifiifiippi: feven miles 
fouth-weft of New Orleans. 
HER'MITAGE, a hill of France, on the fide of the 
Rhone, oppofite Tournon, celebrated forthewine made 
from its vineyards. 
HER'MITAN, f. A dry northerly wind on the eoaft 
®f Guinea; a hurricane. Scott. 
HER/MITESS, /. A woman retired to a hermitage. 
HERMIT'ICAL, ad}. Suitable to a hermit. 
HER'MITORY,/. A chapel or oratory belonging 
to a hermitage. 
HERMOC'RATES, a man’s name; a famous fophift.. 
HERMODAC'TYL, f. [from Mercury, and 
SWlvAo;, Gr. a finger; or more juftly from Hermits, a 
river in Afia, upon whofe banks it grows, and daBylus, 
Lat. a date, ‘ which it refembles ; the Arabians call it 
PD”in mttXK afaba Hermes, the date or finger of Hermus.] 
In the materia medica, a root brought from Arabia, 
and formerly of great repute aiuong the ancietits as a 
cathartic, ft is the root of the Arabian variety of the 
Iris Florcntina, which fee. 
HERMODAC'TYLUS,/. in botany. See Iris. 
HERMODO'RUS, a man’s name ; a fcholar of Plato. 
HERMOG'ENES, [Greek.] A Scripture name. iTim. 
HERMOG'ENES, the firft and moll celebrated archi¬ 
tect of antiquity, born, according to Vitruvius, at Alan- 
bada, a city of Caria. He built a temple of Diana at 
Magnefia ; another of Bacchus at Tros; and was the 
inventor of feveral parts of architecture. He compofed 
a book bn that fubjebt, which has been long loft. 
HERMOG'ENES, a celebrated rhetorician, in the 
fecond century, the belt editions of whofe Rhetorica, 
are that of Sturntius, 3 vols. umo. Argent. 1571, and 
Laurentius, Genev. 1614. He died A.D. 161, and it is 
laid that his body was opened, and his heart found 
hairy, and of an extraordinary fize. At the age of 
twenty-five, as is reported, he totally loft hi? memory. 
HERMOG'ENES, a heretic of the fecond century, 
whofe creed was a compound of Stoicifm and Chriftiani- 
ty, Hourilhed in Africa in the reign of Marcus Anto¬ 
ninus, who died in the year 180. He was educated in 
the Clniftian faith ; but with his Chriftian principles he. 
combined the dobtrine of the Stoics, concerning the 
eternity of matter, and the materiality of the. Supreme 
Being. In this he adopted the tenets of Hermias and 
Seleucas ; whence his followers were frequently clafled 
with them. We are ftill in pofleflion of a work written 
by Tertullian, the chief defign of which is to confute 
the leading opinion of Ilermogenes, whom, with others 
who entertained the fame notion, he dalles under the 
denomination of Ma'teriarians, or Materialifs. Though he 
contended that matter was eternal, he held that God 
made the world out of it; and to this matter he afcribed 
all the evil, and all the defebts which there are in any 
creatures. We are not diftinbtly informed what were 
his conceptions concerning the perfon of Jefus Chrift ; 
but only that he thought that his body was depofited 
in the fun, while his fpiritual nature had afcended to 
the right hand of God. He appears to have believed 
in the doctrine of a future judgment, and the other arti¬ 
cles of religion commonly received among ChriIlians; 
and to have acknowledged and refpebled ’the Scriptures 
of the Old and New Teftamem. From expreftions which 
occur in the writings of Tertullian, and his other oppo¬ 
nents, it may be concluded that, notwithftanding the 
obnoxious tendency of his diftinguilhing tenet; he was 
a learned, ingenious, and virtuous, character, and the 
author of forne ingenious works, which however are no 
longer in exiftence. 
HERM° GE ' N IANS, the fieft °f ancient heretics, 
who took their denomination from Hermogenes, as ftated 
above. They wore divided into feveral branches under 
their refpebtive leaders, viz. Hermianians, Seleucians, 
Materialifts, See. 
llERMOGENTA'NUS., an eminent jurift of the fourth 
you. IX. No. 639. 
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century, who publifiied an Abridgment of Law, in fix 
books, in Latin, in which he follows the order of the 
perpetual edibt. The work commences witli the reign 
of Adrian; and has been fpo.ken of with great applaufe 
by feveral writers on the Roman law. 
HERMOLA'US, a man’s name; a famous botanift. 
HER'MON, [Heb. deftrubtion.] Sion, Shentr, or 
Sirion, a mountain of Paleftine, lituated very proba¬ 
bly in the half-tribe of Manalfeh, weft of Jordan ; and fup- 
pofed to be a part of Anti-Libanus. Deut. iii.8, 9. iv.48.. 
HER'MONITE, f. An inhabitant of Hermon, or a 
defeendant of one. 
HER'MON VTLLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Marne, with a medicinal fpring : feven miles 
from Rheims. 
HERMOP'OLIS, in ancient geography, two cities of 
Egypt, now Afhmuneim, and Demenhur. See the arti¬ 
cle Egypt, vol. vi. p. 359. 
HERMOSEL'LO, a town of Spain, in the province 
of Leon, at the conflux of the Duero and the Tormes : 
three leagues below Miranda de Duero. 
HERMOT'IMUS, a famous prophet of Clazomeme, 
cf whom it is fabled that .his fijul Separated itfelf from 
his body, and wandered in every, part of the earth to 
explain futurity, after which it returned again, and ani¬ 
mated his frame. His wife, who was acquainted with 
the frequent abfence of his (pint, took advantage of; it, 
and burnt his body,, as if totally, dead, and deprived the 
foul of its natural receptacle. Hermotimus received di¬ 
vine honours in a temple at Clazomenae, into which; it 
was unlawful for women to enter. Lucian. 
HERMUNDU'RT, in ancient geography, a people of 
Germany, fubdued by Aurelius. They were at the north 
of the Danube, and were confidered by Tacitus as a tribe 
of the Stievi, but called, together with tiie Suevi, Her - 
miones, by Pliny, iv. c. 14. 
HER'MUS, a river of Alia, Minor, whofe fands, ac¬ 
cording to the poets, were covered with gold. It flows 
near Sardes, and receives the waters of the Pabtolus and 
Hyllus, after which it falls into the iEgean fea. It is 
now called Kedous, or Sarabat. Virgil. 
HERN, f. [contracted from Heron, which fee.]—. 
Birds that are raoft eafy to be drawn, are the mallard, 
Iwan, hern, and bittern. Peacham. 
Hern at Siege, among fowlers, is a hern Handing 
at the water-fide, and watching for prey. 
HERNAN'DEZ (Francis), a celebrated botanift, phy- 
fician to Philip II. king of'Spain, was fent into Spanifh 
America, for the purpofe of aicertaining the natural 
produbtions of that country. He formed a great collec¬ 
tion of figures of plants and other objebts at a vaft ex¬ 
pence, and wrote an account of their, nature and proper¬ 
ties; and his work was publiftied in the Spanifh language 
at Mexico, in 1615, by Francis Ximenes, and under his 
name. The manuferipts of Hernandez were afterwards 
purchafcd by Francis C e fi» head of the academy of Lyn- 
cei; and at length there appeared at Rome a work enti¬ 
tled Hijioria naturalis Nova; Hifpania feu Mexicanxpofl Fr. 
Hernandez a Nardo Antonio Reecho digefla, cum notis & addi- 
tamentatis, Joan. Terrentii, Joan. Fabri, & Fabii Columnce, 
1651, folio. This work firft laid open the treafures of 
the warm climates of America to Europeans. Of the 
ten books,'eight relate to botany. The-ofiginal papers 
and drawings of Hernandez periftied in a fire of the Ef- 
ctirial. To this author is altribecl a hiftory of the church 
of Mexico, and other performances. 
HERNAN'DIA, f. [from Francis Hernandez, the fub. 
jebt of the preceding article,] In .botany, a genus of the 
clafs monogeia, order triandna, natural order of tricoc- 
cae, (laljri, JuJJ. ) The generic charabters are—I. Male 
■ flowers by pairs, lateral in each umbel. Calyx: invo¬ 
lucre partial, four-leaved, three-flowered,; leaflets ovate, 
obtufe, fpreading very much; perianthium none. Co¬ 
rolla: petals fix, fubovate, fpreading.; the thffee inner 
ones narrower; nebtary fix glands, round-headed, placed 
9 Y round 
