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HERVOR'DEN. See Herford. 
HE'RY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridft of St. 
Florentin: eight miles north of Auxerre. 
To HE'RY, », a [hepuan, Sax. to praife, tocclebrate.] 
To hallow ; to regard as holy. Not in u/e. 
But were thy years green as now be mine. 
Then would’ft thou learn to carol of love, 
And hery with hymns thy lafs’s' glove. Spenfer. 
FIERZ'BERG, a town of Germany, in Lower Saxony, 
and principality of Grubenhagen, fituated near the Harz 
mountain, with manufactures of arms and iron tools: 
fourteen miles fouth of Gollar. 
HERZGOVI'NA, or St. Saba, a town of Turkifh 
Dalmatia, which gives name to a duchy ; it is fortified, 
and the refidence of a Turkifh governor ; great part of 
the-duchy belongs to the Venetians : eighty miles fouth- 
fouth-w.eft of Belgrade. 
HES^E'NUS, in ancient geography, a mountain near 
Paeonia. . 
HES'DIN, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, 
in the department of the Straits of Calais, fituated on 
the Canche, built in the form of a regular hexagon, 
ftrongly fortified, and almoft furrounded with marfhes. 
This town was built by Philibert Emanuel, duke of 
Savoy, general to the emperor Charles V. in 1554, after 
tleftroying Old Hefdin. In' 1639, it was taken by Louis 
XIV. who united it to his kingdom after the peace of 
the Pyrenees : four leagues fouth-eaft of Montreuil, and 
nine weft of Arras. Lat.50.z2.N. Ion. 19.42. E. Ferro. 
HES'DIN (Old), a town of France, in the department 
of the Straits of Calais, deflroyed by the troops of Charles 
V. in the year 1554: one league fouth-eaft of Hefdin. 
FIE'SEB, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HESH'BON, [Heb. invention.] A city of Paleftine, 
belonging to the tribe of Reuben; and one ot the cities 
of the" Levites of the family of Merari. This city was 
taken by Ifrael from the Amorites, during their journey 
from Egypt to Canaan ; at which time it was the feat 
of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had formerly taken 
it from Moab. Numb. xxi. 21. &c. J0JI1. xxi. 39. 
HESH'MON, a city of Paleftine, belonging to the 
trijse of Judah ; fituated in the fouthern part of that 
province near the border of Edom. JoJh. xv. 27. 
HESHU'SiUS (TilemannUs), a German Lutheran di¬ 
vine, bornatWefel in 1326. Such were his abilities, 
and early proficiency in literature and theology, that 
when very young he was appointed profelfor of divinity 
at Heidelberg, and alfo preacher in the church of the 
Holy Ghoft. While difeharging the duties of thefe 
offices, he became involved in a violent ecclefiaftical 
conteft,which eventually deprived him of thefe benefices. 
Upon this he retired into Saxony, where he oppofed 
the progrefs of Calvinifm in Germany, by different 
writings, which he publiffied at Jena. From this place, 
however, he was expelled in 1573; and was invited into 
Pruffia, and appointed profeffior of theology at Konigf- 
berg; where he taught till the year 1577, and was ap¬ 
pointed biftiop of Sarnia. But, havik" written againft 
Beza, he was baniftied the country, a*/ were all the 
other mihifters who took his part; in confequence of 
which he retired with his family to Lubeck, and after¬ 
wards to Helmftadt, where he was appointed profeffor 
of divinity.. Though he was a zealous Lutheran, yet 
he diffented from the doEtrine of the moll rigid of his 
party. He died at Helmftadt in 1588. His writings are, 
1. Commentaries on the Plaints, in folio; on Ifaiah, in 
folio; on all the Epiftles of St. Paul, in 8vo. 2. A 
Treatife on the Lord’s Supper, and on Jollification, in 
folio. 3. Sexcenti Errores pleni B'lafphemiis in Deum quos 
Romana Pontificiaque Ecclefia contra Dei Verlum Furenter de- 
fendit , 8vo. 4. AJJertio Tejlamenti Jefu Chrifti contra Blaf- 
phemias Calvinijlarum, 8vo. 
HE'SIOD, an ancient Greek poet, by fome fuppofed 
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eotemporary with Homer, others a century later, Rors 
at Cuina in ZEolia, but removed in his infancy with his 
father to Afcra, a fmall town in Bceotia'. Very little is 
known concerning his life; and the traditions ureferved 
refpefting him are in many refpe&s fabulous/ Ilefiod 
is the firft who wrote a poem on agriculture. This ' 
compofition is called, The Works and the Days; and, 
belides the inftnxftions which are given to the cultivator 
of the field, the reader is pleafed to find many moral 
reflections worthy of a refined Socrates or a Piato. His 
Theogony is a mifcellaneous narration executed with¬ 
out art, precifion, choice, judgment, or connection; yet 
it is the more valuable for the faithful account it gives 
of the gods of antiquity. His Shield of Hercules is but 
a fragment of a larger poem, in which it is fuppofed 
he gave an account of the molt celebrated heroines 
among the ancients. Hefiod, without being mafter of 
the fire and fublimity of Homer, is admired for the ele¬ 
gance of his diction, and the fweetnefs of his poetry. 
Befides thefe poems, he wrote others, now loft. Pau- 
fanias fays, that, in his age, Hefiod’s verfe's were ftill 
written on tablets in the Temple of the Mufes, of which 
the poet was a prieft. If we believe Clem. Alexand. 6 , 
Strom, the poet borrowed much from Mufaeus. One 
of Lucian’s dialogues bears the name of Hefiod, and, in 
it, the poet is introduced as fpeaking of himfelf. Virgil, 
in his Georgies, has imitated the compofitionsof Hefiod, 
and taken his Opera & Dies for models, as he acknow¬ 
ledges. Cicero ftrongly commends him; and the Greeks 
were fo partial to his poetry and moral inftruCtions, 
that they ordered their children to learn all by heart. 
Hefiod is faid to have been murdered by the fons of 
GanyCtor of NaupaCtum, and his body thrown into the 
fea; and that fome dolphins brought back the body to 
the Ihore, which was immediately known, and the mur¬ 
derers were difeovered by the poet’s dogs, and thrown 
into the fea. If Hefiod flouriftied in the age of Homer, 
he lived 907 years before Chrift. The beft editions of 
this poet are that of Robinfon, 4to. Oxon. 1737. that of 
Loefner, 8vo. Lipf. 1778. and that of Parma, 4to. 1785. 
HESI'ONE, a daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, 
by Strymo, the daughter of the Scamander. It fell to 
her lot to be ex poled to. a fea-monfter, to whom the 
Trojans yearly prefented a marriageable virgin, to ap- 
peafe the refentment of Apollo and Neptune, whom 
Laomedon had offended ; but Hercules promifed to de¬ 
liver her, provided he received as a reward fix beautiful 
horles. Laomedon confented, and Hercules attacked 
the monfter juft as he was going to devour Hefione, and 
killed him with his club. Laomedon, however, 
refufed to reward the hero’s fervices; and Hercules, in- 
cenfed at his treachery, befieged Troy, and put the 
king and all his family to the fword, except Podarces, 
or Priam, who had advifed his father to give the pro¬ 
mifed herfes to his filler’s deliverer. The conqueror 
gave Hefione in marriage to his friend Telamon, who 
had affifted him during the war, and he eftablilhed Priam 
upon his father’s throne. The removal of Hefione to 
Greece proved at laft fatal to the Trojans; and Priam, 
who remembered with indignation that his lifter had 
been forcibly given to a foreigner, fent his fon Paris to 
Greece to.reclaim the poffeffions of Hefione, or more: 
probably to revenge his injuries upon the Greeks by 
carrying away Helen, which gave rife, foon after, to the 
Trojan war. Lycophron mentions, that Hercules threw 
himfelf, armed from head to foot, into the mouth ©f the 
monfter to which Hefione was expofed, and that he tore 
his belly to pieces, and came out fafe, only with the lofs 
of his hair, after a confinement of three days. 
HES'ITANCY, f. Dubioufnefs; uncertainty; fuf- 
pence.—Some of them reafoned without doubt or he/u 
tancy , and lived and died in fuel) a manner as to fhow 
that they believed their own reafonings. Atterbury. 
To HES'ITATE, a. a. \_luefito, Lat. hefiter, Fr.] To be 
doubtful; to delaY; topaufe; to make difficulty: 
Willing 
