Στεφάνου
κατά
επιτομήν,” but without the name
(Strauchius, Vitae Vet.
(Strauchius, Vitae Vet.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
19.
) Theodoretus and 114, vol.
ii.
p.
29).
Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. iv. 24) state, that Theophi- 3. One of the followers and admirers of Erasis-
Jus of Alexandria and Origen also wrote against tratus, mentioned by Galen (De Simplic. Medicam.
Hermogenes, but it is uncertain whether this is the Temper. uc Facult. i. 29, vol. xi. p. 432), who is
same as the painter.
[L. S. ) supposed to be the same physician who is said
HERMOGENES, M. TIGEʻLLIUS, a 10-in an ancient Greek inscription found at Smyrna
torious detractor of Horace, who at first seems to to have been the son of Charidemus, and to
have been well disposed towards him, for in one have written a great number of medical and his-
passage (Sat. i. 3. 129) he calls him optimus cantor torical works. If his father was the physician
et modulator (comp. Sat. i. 9. 25), whereas shortly who was one of the followers of Erasistratus [CHA-
afterwards (Sat. i. 10. 80) he speaks of him as an RIDEM US], he lived probably in the third or second
opponent and an enemy. The scholiasts of Horace century u. c. He is perhaps the same person said
attempt to give the reasons why Hermogenes dis- in another inscription to have been a native of
liked Horace; but there is no necessity for trusting Tricca in Thessaly. (Mead, Dissert. de Numis
to their inventions, for Horace himself gives us suf- quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem
ficient materials to account for it. Hermogenes percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
appears to have been opposed to Satires altogether vol. xiii. p. 180, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. )
(Hor. Sat. i. 4. 24, &c. , ii. 1. 23); he was a man HERMOGENIA’NÚS, the latest Roman ju-
without talent, but yet had a foolish fancy for rist from whom there is an extract in the Digest.
trying his hand at literature. (Sat. i. 10. 18. ) and the last mentioned in the Florentine Index,
He moved in the society of men without any pre- He lived in the time of Constantine the Great,
tensions, and is described as a singing-master in when the family of the Hermogeniani was in high
girls' schools. (Sat. i. 10. 80, 90, &c. ) Horace credit, from its connection with the powerful race
therefore throughout treats him with contempt. It of the Anicii (Reines, Inscr. p. 70). * In Dig. 48.
is a very ingenious and highly probable conjecture tit. 15. 5. ult. , he says that the pecuniary punish-
a
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422
HERMOLAUS.
HERMOLYCUS.
tem;
ment of the Lex Fabia de Plagiariis had fallen | allow Alexander the first blow. Highly incensed
into disuse. Now that penalty was still in exist- at this breach of discipline, the king ordered him
ence in the reign of Diocletian and Maximilian to be chastised with stripes, and further punished
(Cod. 9. tit. 20. 8. 6), who first inade kidnapping by being deprived of his horse. Herniolaus, a lad
a capital offence (Cod. 9. tit. 20. 6. 7). He was of high spirit, already verging on manhood, could
acquainted (Dig. 4. tit. 4. 6. 7) with the consti- not brook this indignity: his resentment was in-
tution of Constantine, bearing date A. D. 331, by famed by the exhortations of the philosopher Cal-
which the right of appeal from the sentences of the listhenes, to whom he had previously attached
praefecti praetorio was abolished (Cod. Theod. 11. himself as a pupil, and by the sympathy of his
tit. 30. s. 16; Cod. Just. 7. tit. 62. s. 19). Jacques most intimate friend among his brother pages, Sos-
Godefroi, in the commencement of his Prolegomena tratus. The two youths in concert at length
to the Theodosian Code (vol. i. p. 193), cites formed the scheme of assassinating the king while
several passages which make it likely that llermo- he slept, the duty of guarding his bed chamber de-
genianus survived Constantine, and wrote under volving upon the different pages in rotation. They
the reign of his sons. Thus, in Dig. 28. tit. 1. communicated their plan to four of their companions,
8. 41, Dig. 39. tit. 4. &. 10, Dig. 49. tit. 14. 8. 46. and the secret was inviolably kept, though thirty-
♡ 7, he spenks of principes and imperutorcs in the two days are said to have elapsed before they had
plural number. The fact of his being contemporary an opportunity of executing their project. But idl
with Constantine may have led to the notion that things having been at length arranged for a certain
he was a Christian. Bertrandus (de Jurisp. i. 38) night, during which Antipater, one of their num-
endeavours to prove that he was so, from the men- ber, was to keep watch, the scheme was accident.
tion which he makes in Dig. 24. tit. 1. 6. 60, of ally foiled, by Alexander remaining all night at a
divorce, “ Propter sacerdotium, vel etiam sterilita- drinking party, and the next day the plot was di-
" but, on the one hand, a divorce for barren- vulged by another of the pages, to whom it was
ness was not in conformity with the then prevalent communicated, in hopes of inducing him to take
doctrine of the Christian church, and, on the other part in it. Hermolaus and his accomplices were
hand, it was not unusual for Gentiles, on entering immediately arrested, and subsequently brought
the priesthood, to dismiss their wives. (Tertullian, before the assembled Macedonians, by whom they
u Uxorem, lib. i. )
were stoned to death. It appears, however, that
Before his time, the living spirit of jurisprudence they had been previously submitted to examination
had departed. He is a mere compiler, and his by torture, when, according to one account, they
language, like that of Charisius, is infected with implicated Callisthenes also in their conspiracy ;
barbarisms. He wrote Juris Epitomae in six books, according to another, and on the whole à more
following the arrangement of the edict (Dig. 1. probable one, they maintained that the plot had
tit. 5. s. 2). He appears in particular to have been wholly of their own devising. (CALLISTHE-
copied from Paulus, by whose side he is repeatedly nes. ) Some authors also represented Hermolaus
quoted in the Digest. From his Epitomac there as uttering before the assembled Macedonians a
are 106 extracts in the Digest, occupying about ten long harangue against the tyranny and injustice
pages in the Pulingenesia of Hommel. From the in- of Alexander. (Arr. Anab. iv. 13, 14 ; Curt. viii.
scription of Dig. 36. tit. 1. s. 14, it has been supposed 6–8; Plut. Alex. 55. )
[E. H. B. )
that he wrote Libri Fideicommissorum, but there HERMOLA'US ('Epuólaos), a Greek gram-
is no mention of such a work in the Florentine marian of Constantinople, of whom nothing more
Index; and, as the preceding and following extracts is known with certainty than that he wrote an
are taken from Ulpian's Libri IV. Fideicommis epitome of the 'Envird of Stephanus of Byzantium,
sorum, it is not unlikely that his name has been which he dedicated to the emperor Justinian.
inserted by mistake, instead of Ulpian's.
(Suidas, s. v. 'Epuólaos. ) But whether he lived
It is probable that he was the compiler of the in the reign of the first or in that of the second
Codex Hermogenianus (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Codex emperor of that name cannot be clearly ascertained.
Gregoriunus and Hermogenianus), but so many There seems no reason for doubting that the epi-
persons of the same name lived nearly at the same tome of Hermolaus is the same which is still ex-
time, that this cannot be affirmed with certainty. tant, and which bears the title “ 'Ek Tv Ovikar
(Ritter, ad Heinec. Hist. Jur. Rom. $ 369).
Στεφάνου κατά επιτομήν,” but without the name
(Strauchius, Vitae Vet. ICt. p. 2:2; Jos. Finestres, of the author. In its present form eren this epi-
Comment in Hermogeniani ICti Juris Epit. Libros tome seems to have suffered considerable abridg-
VI. 4to. Cervariae Lacetanorum, 1757 ; Ménage, ment and mutilation. Some passages in the work
Amoen. Jur. c. ll: Guil. Grotius, de Vit. ICtorum, have been supposed to furnish a few particulars
ii. 12. § 8; Bynkers, Ols. vi. 21 ; Zimmern, respecting the life of Hermolaus ; but as the more
R. R. G. vol. i. $ 104. )
[J. T. G. ] probable opinion seems to be that they are mere
HIERMOLA'US ('Epubxaos), son of Sopolis, verbal extracts from the work of Stephanus, an
was one of the Macedonian youths who, according account of them is given under STEPHANUS. (Fa-
to a custom instituted by Philip, attended Alex- bric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. iv. p. 622, &c. ; Westermann,
ander the Great as pages. It was during the Praefut, ad Steph. Byzant. pp. v. xxiv. &c. (C. P. M. ]
residence of the king at Bactra in the spring of HERMOLA'US, statuary. (POLYDECTUS. )
B. C. 327, that a circumstance occurred which led HERMO'LYCUS ('Epuolukos), an Athenian,
him, in conjunction with some of his fellow pages, son of Euthynus, was distinguished as a pancra-
to form a conspiracy against the life of Alexander. tiast, and gained the đploteia at the battle of
Among the duties of the pages, who were in almost Mycale, in B. c. 479. He was slain in the war
constuit attendance on the king's person, was that between the Athenians and Carystians, which took
of accompanying him when hunting, and it was on place about B. C. 468. Pausanias mentions a statue
one of these occasions that he gave offence to the of him in the Acropolis at Athens. (Herod. ix.
king, by slaying a wild boar, without waiting to 105 ; Thuc. i. 98; Paus. i. 23. ) [E. E. ]
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IIERMOTIMUS.
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HERODES.
HERMON ("Epuwv) is described by Thucydides | Salamis. Some time before this, when Xerxes was
as commander of the detachment of replroos, or at Sardis, and preparing to invade Grecce, Hermo-
frontier guards, stationed at Munychia, and as timus went to Atarneus in Mysin, where Panio
taking in this capacity a prominent part in the nius was; and having decoyed both him and his
sedition against the Four Hundred which Thera- sons into his power, took cruel vengeance on them
menes and Aristocrates excited in Peiraeeus, B. c. for the injury he had received. (Ilerod. viii. 104
411. Thucydides had just mentioned the assassi- -106. )
(E. E. )
nation of Phrynichus by one of the tepimolol, and HERMOTI'MUS ('EpubTIMOs). 1. A Stoic
from a confusion perhaps of the two passages comes philosopher, son of Menecrates, who is introduced
the statement of Plutarch (Alcib. c. 25), that the by Lucian as one of the speakers in the dialogue
assassin was Hermon, and that he received a crown cntitled 'Epuótimos, nepi aipéoew. Some sup-
in honour of it. Such a supposition is wholly pose that he is merely a fictitious personage.
inconsistent alike with the historian's narrative 2. A native of Colophon, a learned geometer
and the facts mentioned by the orators. (Lys. c. mentioned by Proclus. (Comment. ad Euclid, lib.
Agorat. p. 492; Lycurgus, ad Leocr. p. 217. ) It i. p. 19. ed. Basil. ) He was one of the immediate
is hardly even a plausible hypothesis to identify predecessors of Euclid, and the discoverer of several
him with the commander of the repimolol, at geometrical propositions.
(C. P. M. ]
whose house, it appeared by the confession of an HERMOTI'MUS ('Epuótimos), of Clazomenae,
accomplice, secret meetings had been held. (Thuc. called by Lucian a Pythagorean, had the reputa-
viii. 92. ) But he is probably the same who is men- tion, according to Aristotle, of being the first to
tioned in the inscription (Böckh, Inscr. Gracc. i. suggest the idea which Anaxagoras is commonly said
p. 221), which records the monies paid by the to have originated : that mind (voûs) was the cause
keepers of the treasury of Athena in the Acropolis of all things. Accordingly, Sextus Einpiricus places
during the year beginning at Midsummer B. c. him with Hesiod, Parmenides, and Empedocles, as
410. One of the earliest items is "to Hermon belonging to that class of philosophers who held a
for his command at Pylos. " The place was taken dualistic theory of a material and an active principle
no long time after, probably in the next winter being together the origin of the universe.
but one.
(A. H. C. ) Other notices that remain of him represent him,
HERMON (Epuwv), or, as some write it, like Epimenides and Aristacus, as a mysterious
HERMONAX, a Greek grammarian, who made person, gifted with a supernatural power, by which
the dialect spoken in the island of Crete his parti- his soul, apart from the body, wandered from place
cular study, and wrote a dictionary (Kontikad to place, bringing tidings of distant events in
Jaworu), in which he explained the words pecu- | incredibly short spaces of time. At length his
liar to that dialect, as well as those which were enemies burned his body, in the absence of the
used by the Cretans in a peculiar sense. The soul, which put an end to his wanderings. The
work is often referred to by Athenaeus, who some story is told in Pliny and Lucian. (Plin. H. N.
times calls the author Hermon (iii. p. 81, vi. p. vii. 42; Lucian, Encom. Musc. 7 ; Arist. Metaph.
267), and sometimes Hermonax (ii. p. 53, iii. p. 76, i. 3; Sext. Empir. adr. Math. ix. , ad Phys. i.
xi. p. 502), but which of the two forms of the 7; Diog. Laërt. viii. 5; Denzinger, De Hermotim.
name is the correct one is uncertain. (Comp. Fis- Clazomen. Commentatio, Leodii, 1825. ) [C. E. P. )
cher, Animado. in Welleri Grammat. Graec. i. p. HERO ("Hpw), the name of three mythical per-
49. ) Lucian (Conviv. 8. Lapith. 6) mentions an sonages, one a daughter of Danaus (Hygin. Fut.
Epicurean philosopher of the name of Hermon, who 170), the second a daughter of Priam (Hygin.
is otherwise unknown.
[L. S. ] Fab. 90), and respecting the third, see LEAN-
HERMON (“Epuwv. ) Artists. 1. A statuary
(L. S. )
of Troezen, who made a statue of Apollo and HERO. (Heron. ]
wooden images of the Dioscuri in the temple of HERO'DES ('Hpaons), an ancient Greek lambic
A pollo at Troezen. He seems to belong to a very poet, a contemporary and rival, as it seems, of Hip-
ancient period. (Paus. ii. 31. 9. )
ponax, though there is some doubt about the true
2. An architect. [PYRRHUS. ]
reading of the line in which Hipponax mentions
3. An artist, who is said to have invented a him. The ancient writers quote several choliambic
sort of masks, which were called after him 'Epua- lines of Herodes, who also wrote mimes in Iambic
veld.
Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. iv. 24) state, that Theophi- 3. One of the followers and admirers of Erasis-
Jus of Alexandria and Origen also wrote against tratus, mentioned by Galen (De Simplic. Medicam.
Hermogenes, but it is uncertain whether this is the Temper. uc Facult. i. 29, vol. xi. p. 432), who is
same as the painter.
[L. S. ) supposed to be the same physician who is said
HERMOGENES, M. TIGEʻLLIUS, a 10-in an ancient Greek inscription found at Smyrna
torious detractor of Horace, who at first seems to to have been the son of Charidemus, and to
have been well disposed towards him, for in one have written a great number of medical and his-
passage (Sat. i. 3. 129) he calls him optimus cantor torical works. If his father was the physician
et modulator (comp. Sat. i. 9. 25), whereas shortly who was one of the followers of Erasistratus [CHA-
afterwards (Sat. i. 10. 80) he speaks of him as an RIDEM US], he lived probably in the third or second
opponent and an enemy. The scholiasts of Horace century u. c. He is perhaps the same person said
attempt to give the reasons why Hermogenes dis- in another inscription to have been a native of
liked Horace; but there is no necessity for trusting Tricca in Thessaly. (Mead, Dissert. de Numis
to their inventions, for Horace himself gives us suf- quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem
ficient materials to account for it. Hermogenes percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
appears to have been opposed to Satires altogether vol. xiii. p. 180, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. )
(Hor. Sat. i. 4. 24, &c. , ii. 1. 23); he was a man HERMOGENIA’NÚS, the latest Roman ju-
without talent, but yet had a foolish fancy for rist from whom there is an extract in the Digest.
trying his hand at literature. (Sat. i. 10. 18. ) and the last mentioned in the Florentine Index,
He moved in the society of men without any pre- He lived in the time of Constantine the Great,
tensions, and is described as a singing-master in when the family of the Hermogeniani was in high
girls' schools. (Sat. i. 10. 80, 90, &c. ) Horace credit, from its connection with the powerful race
therefore throughout treats him with contempt. It of the Anicii (Reines, Inscr. p. 70). * In Dig. 48.
is a very ingenious and highly probable conjecture tit. 15. 5. ult. , he says that the pecuniary punish-
a
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422
HERMOLAUS.
HERMOLYCUS.
tem;
ment of the Lex Fabia de Plagiariis had fallen | allow Alexander the first blow. Highly incensed
into disuse. Now that penalty was still in exist- at this breach of discipline, the king ordered him
ence in the reign of Diocletian and Maximilian to be chastised with stripes, and further punished
(Cod. 9. tit. 20. 8. 6), who first inade kidnapping by being deprived of his horse. Herniolaus, a lad
a capital offence (Cod. 9. tit. 20. 6. 7). He was of high spirit, already verging on manhood, could
acquainted (Dig. 4. tit. 4. 6. 7) with the consti- not brook this indignity: his resentment was in-
tution of Constantine, bearing date A. D. 331, by famed by the exhortations of the philosopher Cal-
which the right of appeal from the sentences of the listhenes, to whom he had previously attached
praefecti praetorio was abolished (Cod. Theod. 11. himself as a pupil, and by the sympathy of his
tit. 30. s. 16; Cod. Just. 7. tit. 62. s. 19). Jacques most intimate friend among his brother pages, Sos-
Godefroi, in the commencement of his Prolegomena tratus. The two youths in concert at length
to the Theodosian Code (vol. i. p. 193), cites formed the scheme of assassinating the king while
several passages which make it likely that llermo- he slept, the duty of guarding his bed chamber de-
genianus survived Constantine, and wrote under volving upon the different pages in rotation. They
the reign of his sons. Thus, in Dig. 28. tit. 1. communicated their plan to four of their companions,
8. 41, Dig. 39. tit. 4. &. 10, Dig. 49. tit. 14. 8. 46. and the secret was inviolably kept, though thirty-
♡ 7, he spenks of principes and imperutorcs in the two days are said to have elapsed before they had
plural number. The fact of his being contemporary an opportunity of executing their project. But idl
with Constantine may have led to the notion that things having been at length arranged for a certain
he was a Christian. Bertrandus (de Jurisp. i. 38) night, during which Antipater, one of their num-
endeavours to prove that he was so, from the men- ber, was to keep watch, the scheme was accident.
tion which he makes in Dig. 24. tit. 1. 6. 60, of ally foiled, by Alexander remaining all night at a
divorce, “ Propter sacerdotium, vel etiam sterilita- drinking party, and the next day the plot was di-
" but, on the one hand, a divorce for barren- vulged by another of the pages, to whom it was
ness was not in conformity with the then prevalent communicated, in hopes of inducing him to take
doctrine of the Christian church, and, on the other part in it. Hermolaus and his accomplices were
hand, it was not unusual for Gentiles, on entering immediately arrested, and subsequently brought
the priesthood, to dismiss their wives. (Tertullian, before the assembled Macedonians, by whom they
u Uxorem, lib. i. )
were stoned to death. It appears, however, that
Before his time, the living spirit of jurisprudence they had been previously submitted to examination
had departed. He is a mere compiler, and his by torture, when, according to one account, they
language, like that of Charisius, is infected with implicated Callisthenes also in their conspiracy ;
barbarisms. He wrote Juris Epitomae in six books, according to another, and on the whole à more
following the arrangement of the edict (Dig. 1. probable one, they maintained that the plot had
tit. 5. s. 2). He appears in particular to have been wholly of their own devising. (CALLISTHE-
copied from Paulus, by whose side he is repeatedly nes. ) Some authors also represented Hermolaus
quoted in the Digest. From his Epitomac there as uttering before the assembled Macedonians a
are 106 extracts in the Digest, occupying about ten long harangue against the tyranny and injustice
pages in the Pulingenesia of Hommel. From the in- of Alexander. (Arr. Anab. iv. 13, 14 ; Curt. viii.
scription of Dig. 36. tit. 1. s. 14, it has been supposed 6–8; Plut. Alex. 55. )
[E. H. B. )
that he wrote Libri Fideicommissorum, but there HERMOLA'US ('Epuólaos), a Greek gram-
is no mention of such a work in the Florentine marian of Constantinople, of whom nothing more
Index; and, as the preceding and following extracts is known with certainty than that he wrote an
are taken from Ulpian's Libri IV. Fideicommis epitome of the 'Envird of Stephanus of Byzantium,
sorum, it is not unlikely that his name has been which he dedicated to the emperor Justinian.
inserted by mistake, instead of Ulpian's.
(Suidas, s. v. 'Epuólaos. ) But whether he lived
It is probable that he was the compiler of the in the reign of the first or in that of the second
Codex Hermogenianus (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Codex emperor of that name cannot be clearly ascertained.
Gregoriunus and Hermogenianus), but so many There seems no reason for doubting that the epi-
persons of the same name lived nearly at the same tome of Hermolaus is the same which is still ex-
time, that this cannot be affirmed with certainty. tant, and which bears the title “ 'Ek Tv Ovikar
(Ritter, ad Heinec. Hist. Jur. Rom. $ 369).
Στεφάνου κατά επιτομήν,” but without the name
(Strauchius, Vitae Vet. ICt. p. 2:2; Jos. Finestres, of the author. In its present form eren this epi-
Comment in Hermogeniani ICti Juris Epit. Libros tome seems to have suffered considerable abridg-
VI. 4to. Cervariae Lacetanorum, 1757 ; Ménage, ment and mutilation. Some passages in the work
Amoen. Jur. c. ll: Guil. Grotius, de Vit. ICtorum, have been supposed to furnish a few particulars
ii. 12. § 8; Bynkers, Ols. vi. 21 ; Zimmern, respecting the life of Hermolaus ; but as the more
R. R. G. vol. i. $ 104. )
[J. T. G. ] probable opinion seems to be that they are mere
HIERMOLA'US ('Epubxaos), son of Sopolis, verbal extracts from the work of Stephanus, an
was one of the Macedonian youths who, according account of them is given under STEPHANUS. (Fa-
to a custom instituted by Philip, attended Alex- bric. Bibl. Gracc. vol. iv. p. 622, &c. ; Westermann,
ander the Great as pages. It was during the Praefut, ad Steph. Byzant. pp. v. xxiv. &c. (C. P. M. ]
residence of the king at Bactra in the spring of HERMOLA'US, statuary. (POLYDECTUS. )
B. C. 327, that a circumstance occurred which led HERMO'LYCUS ('Epuolukos), an Athenian,
him, in conjunction with some of his fellow pages, son of Euthynus, was distinguished as a pancra-
to form a conspiracy against the life of Alexander. tiast, and gained the đploteia at the battle of
Among the duties of the pages, who were in almost Mycale, in B. c. 479. He was slain in the war
constuit attendance on the king's person, was that between the Athenians and Carystians, which took
of accompanying him when hunting, and it was on place about B. C. 468. Pausanias mentions a statue
one of these occasions that he gave offence to the of him in the Acropolis at Athens. (Herod. ix.
king, by slaying a wild boar, without waiting to 105 ; Thuc. i. 98; Paus. i. 23. ) [E. E. ]
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IIERMOTIMUS.
423
HERODES.
HERMON ("Epuwv) is described by Thucydides | Salamis. Some time before this, when Xerxes was
as commander of the detachment of replroos, or at Sardis, and preparing to invade Grecce, Hermo-
frontier guards, stationed at Munychia, and as timus went to Atarneus in Mysin, where Panio
taking in this capacity a prominent part in the nius was; and having decoyed both him and his
sedition against the Four Hundred which Thera- sons into his power, took cruel vengeance on them
menes and Aristocrates excited in Peiraeeus, B. c. for the injury he had received. (Ilerod. viii. 104
411. Thucydides had just mentioned the assassi- -106. )
(E. E. )
nation of Phrynichus by one of the tepimolol, and HERMOTI'MUS ('EpubTIMOs). 1. A Stoic
from a confusion perhaps of the two passages comes philosopher, son of Menecrates, who is introduced
the statement of Plutarch (Alcib. c. 25), that the by Lucian as one of the speakers in the dialogue
assassin was Hermon, and that he received a crown cntitled 'Epuótimos, nepi aipéoew. Some sup-
in honour of it. Such a supposition is wholly pose that he is merely a fictitious personage.
inconsistent alike with the historian's narrative 2. A native of Colophon, a learned geometer
and the facts mentioned by the orators. (Lys. c. mentioned by Proclus. (Comment. ad Euclid, lib.
Agorat. p. 492; Lycurgus, ad Leocr. p. 217. ) It i. p. 19. ed. Basil. ) He was one of the immediate
is hardly even a plausible hypothesis to identify predecessors of Euclid, and the discoverer of several
him with the commander of the repimolol, at geometrical propositions.
(C. P. M. ]
whose house, it appeared by the confession of an HERMOTI'MUS ('Epuótimos), of Clazomenae,
accomplice, secret meetings had been held. (Thuc. called by Lucian a Pythagorean, had the reputa-
viii. 92. ) But he is probably the same who is men- tion, according to Aristotle, of being the first to
tioned in the inscription (Böckh, Inscr. Gracc. i. suggest the idea which Anaxagoras is commonly said
p. 221), which records the monies paid by the to have originated : that mind (voûs) was the cause
keepers of the treasury of Athena in the Acropolis of all things. Accordingly, Sextus Einpiricus places
during the year beginning at Midsummer B. c. him with Hesiod, Parmenides, and Empedocles, as
410. One of the earliest items is "to Hermon belonging to that class of philosophers who held a
for his command at Pylos. " The place was taken dualistic theory of a material and an active principle
no long time after, probably in the next winter being together the origin of the universe.
but one.
(A. H. C. ) Other notices that remain of him represent him,
HERMON (Epuwv), or, as some write it, like Epimenides and Aristacus, as a mysterious
HERMONAX, a Greek grammarian, who made person, gifted with a supernatural power, by which
the dialect spoken in the island of Crete his parti- his soul, apart from the body, wandered from place
cular study, and wrote a dictionary (Kontikad to place, bringing tidings of distant events in
Jaworu), in which he explained the words pecu- | incredibly short spaces of time. At length his
liar to that dialect, as well as those which were enemies burned his body, in the absence of the
used by the Cretans in a peculiar sense. The soul, which put an end to his wanderings. The
work is often referred to by Athenaeus, who some story is told in Pliny and Lucian. (Plin. H. N.
times calls the author Hermon (iii. p. 81, vi. p. vii. 42; Lucian, Encom. Musc. 7 ; Arist. Metaph.
267), and sometimes Hermonax (ii. p. 53, iii. p. 76, i. 3; Sext. Empir. adr. Math. ix. , ad Phys. i.
xi. p. 502), but which of the two forms of the 7; Diog. Laërt. viii. 5; Denzinger, De Hermotim.
name is the correct one is uncertain. (Comp. Fis- Clazomen. Commentatio, Leodii, 1825. ) [C. E. P. )
cher, Animado. in Welleri Grammat. Graec. i. p. HERO ("Hpw), the name of three mythical per-
49. ) Lucian (Conviv. 8. Lapith. 6) mentions an sonages, one a daughter of Danaus (Hygin. Fut.
Epicurean philosopher of the name of Hermon, who 170), the second a daughter of Priam (Hygin.
is otherwise unknown.
[L. S. ] Fab. 90), and respecting the third, see LEAN-
HERMON (“Epuwv. ) Artists. 1. A statuary
(L. S. )
of Troezen, who made a statue of Apollo and HERO. (Heron. ]
wooden images of the Dioscuri in the temple of HERO'DES ('Hpaons), an ancient Greek lambic
A pollo at Troezen. He seems to belong to a very poet, a contemporary and rival, as it seems, of Hip-
ancient period. (Paus. ii. 31. 9. )
ponax, though there is some doubt about the true
2. An architect. [PYRRHUS. ]
reading of the line in which Hipponax mentions
3. An artist, who is said to have invented a him. The ancient writers quote several choliambic
sort of masks, which were called after him 'Epua- lines of Herodes, who also wrote mimes in Iambic
veld.
