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tlie fame opini.-n before; and Dr. Stokes follows thefe 
great judges : Trew alfo has made one fpecies of them. 
But pubelcenc'e is certainly an equivocal fpecific diftinc- 
tion. Haller acknowledges that the habit of this is like 
that of the foregoing, and that th,e leaves and bractes 
are the fame: he obferves, however, that it is fmaller, 
and that it is eafily diftinguilhed, by the fmall number 
of flowers in the glomerules, and by the greater flze 
of each. According to Scopoli, this is upright, more 
branched, and the flowers are feflile, as far as *fix in 
number together: but Dr. Stokes affirms that they are 
not more feflile than thofe of the fmooTh fort. Pollich 
adds, that it is of a darker green colour. Whether fpe- 
cifically different or not, it is eafily known by the whole 
plant being hairy. It.is a native of Germany, Swiffer- 
land, Italy, Carniola; and with us has been found by 
Colney-Hatch, near Barnet. It flowers in July and 
Align ft. 
3. Herniaria fruticofa, or ftirubby rupture-wort: ftems 
flirubby; flowers four-cleft. Refembles the laft both 
in leaves and flowers. It is a native of Spain. 
4. I-Jerniaria lenticulata : ftems fomewhat flirubby ; 
leaves ovate-oblong, hairy. In habit it approaches very 
near to common herniaria, but is very foft. Linnaeus 
had not feen the flowers, but received the character of 
the fructification from Aymen. It is a native of the lijiaft 
Indies, and the Cape of Good Hope ; and is faid to have 
eftablifhed itfelf in Spain and the fouth of France. 
Propagation and Culture. The two firft, being annual 
plants, mull be permitted to flied their feeds, whereby 
they are better preferred than if fown. The third, being 
perennial, may be propagated by cuttings; but, as none 
of them are plants of any beauty, they are rarely pre- 
ferved in gardens. See Bx’EONiA, Illecebrum, Pa- 
RIETARIA, and POLYCNEMUM. 
HER'NICI, in ancient geography, a people of Cam¬ 
pania, celebrated for their inveterate enmity to the rifing 
power of Rome. 
HER'JNIOUS, adj. [from hernia, Lat. ] Belonging to 
a hernia; afflicted with a rupture. 
HER'NOSAND, or Her'nosund, a lea-port town in 
Sweden, in the province of Angermania, liiuated on an 
ifland in the Gulf of Bothnia, divided from the conti¬ 
nent by a narrow channel, over which a bridge is thrown. 
On the north fide of the harbour the water is deep enough 
for the largeff veffels to come up and unload at the ware- 
houfes. Hermofand was formerly a ftaple town, and has • 
(fill a confiderable trade, efpecially in linen. I11 the 
years 1710, 1714, and 1721, this town was burned by 
the Rullians. Lat. 62. 38. N. Ion. 18. 38. E. Greenwich. 
HERNSHA'W, or Hern'shew,/. [probably con- 
tradled frpm heronjhaw.] A heron.—I know a hawk from 
a hernjhaw. Shake/peare . 
As when a call of faulcons make thejr flight 
At an hernejkaw, that lies aloft on wing, 
-The whyles they ftrike at him with heedleffe might 
The warie foule his bill doth backward wring. Spenfer. 
Upon whofe tops the kernjkew bred her young, 
And hoary mo He upon their branches hung. W. Browne. 
HE'RO, y. \_heros, Lat. Ega;, Gr. i. e. femi-deus, or 
demi-god.] A man eminent for bravery : 
Thefe are thy honours, not that here thy bull 
Is mix’d with heroes, or with kings thy dull. Pope. 
A man of the greateft acquirements in any purfuit; as, 
a hero in learning. 
The Greeks and Romans not only eredted columns and 
other monuments over the tombs of their heroes, but 
eftablilhed a kind of worlhip in honour of the manes 
both of their heroes and heroines. They diftinguilhed, 
however, between the worlhip paid to their heroes, and 
that folemnly offered to their gods. The former was 
only a kind of funeral honour, in which they celebrated 
their exploits, and rehearfed their battles and heroic 
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achievements, in which they hoped their rifing youth 
might emulate them. But in their religious worlhip 
they proftrated themfelves before the deity, ro implor# 
his protedfion; thanked him for his.bounty,-and acknow-- 
ledged their low condition and dependance. Prayers 
were addreffed to the deity at the commencement qf 
every undertaking, Thefe were offered up in the morn¬ 
ing and in the evening, at the rifing and the letting of 
the fun and moon ; fometimes they prefented themfelves 
at the temple with downcaft eyes and dejedted counte¬ 
nance; they killed the ground; and they offered up 
their prayers Handing, on their knees, and proftrate ; and 
holding branches in their hands, which they lifted up 
towards heaven, or extended towards the ftatue of the 
god, after applying it to their mouths. When their 
worlhip was diredted to the infernal deities, they (iriick 
the earth with their feet or hands ; when to their heroes,/ 
it was to invoke them to inftil into their hearts and minds 
a fimilar portion of courage, fortitude, and perfeverance, 
in all their warlike conflicts and £nterprifes. See Horn. 
Iliad 9, v. 564.—The origin of placing heroes among the 
conftellations, might have ariferi from the opinions of 
the ancient philofoplu. rs, who taught that the fouls of 
great men were often raifed to the ftars, and introduced 
among the immortal gods. According to the notions of 
the ftoics, the ancient heroes inhabited a pure and fe- 
rene climate, fituated above the moon. 
HE'RO, a beautiful prieftefs of Venus, at Seftos, great¬ 
ly enamoured of Leander, a youth of Abydos. Thefe 
two lovers were fo faithful to one another, that Leander 
in the night efcaped from the vigilance of his family, 
and fwam acrofs the Hellefpont ; while Hero in Seftos 
diredted his courfe by holding in her hand a burning 
torch, on the top of a high tower. After many inter¬ 
views of mutual affedtion and tendernefs, Leander was 
drowned in a tempeftuous night as he attempted his 
ufual pourfe, and Hero in defpair threw herfelf down 
from her tower and perilhed in the fea. Virg. G. 3. v.258. 
—The-mutual affedtion of thefe lovers has furnilhed the 
fubftance of a favourite romance, which bears theirnames. 
HE'RO, the name of two celebrated ancient mathe¬ 
maticians, whofe works have reached modern times, and 
who are diftinguilhed from each other by the epithets 
elder, And younger. The firft Was a native of Alexandria, 
in Egypt, and the difciple of Ctefibius, who flourilhed 
under the reigns of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and Euer- 
getes. He diftinguilhed himfelf by his Ikill in mecha. 
nics, and particularly in the conftrudtion of machinery. 
He wrote a treatife De ConJlruSlione & Mtnfura Manubalijla, 
of which a fragment was firft publilhed in Greek, by 
Bernardino Baldi; and it was afterwards inferted, ac¬ 
companied with a Latin'verfion, and plates, in the grand 
Louvre edition of The ancient Mathematicians, printed 
in 1693, folio; De Telis Conjiciendisjaculandifque Liber, firft 
publilhed in Greek and Latin, together with notes, and 
the life of Hero, by Baldi, and afterwards inferted in the 
Louvre colledtion ; Spiralia, firft publilhed with a ver¬ 
fion and notes, by Frederic Commandine, in 1575, and 
to be found in, the Louvre colledtion; and De Automato- 
rum Fabrica, Lib. II. of which an Italian verfion was pub¬ 
lilhed by Baldi, in 1589, 4to. and the original Greek, ac¬ 
companied with a Latin verfion, was given in the Louvre 
colledtion., 
T,he younger Hero is placed under the reign of the em¬ 
peror Heraclius. He was the author of, 1. De Machinis 
Bellicis, Liber, of which Francis Barocci publilhed a Latin 
verfion, with notes, in 1572, 4to. 2. Geodsefa , tranflated 
into Latin, with notes, by Barocci, and annexed to the 
preceding. 3. Liber de Objidione Repellenda & Toleranda, 
publilhed in Greek, at the Louvre, in 1639, and to be 
found in the colledtion of The Ancient Mathematicians. 
4. De Vocabulis Geometricis & Stereometricis, publilhed in the 
original Greek, and feparately in Latin, with the firft 
book of Euclid’s Elements, by Conrad Dafypc-dius, at 
Stralburgh, 1571, 8vo. In 1688 the Benedidtines pub- 
