A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

408:HERIUS. HERMAPHRODITUS.
evidence respecting the murder of P. Clodius on HERMA'GORAS ('Epuaydpas.) 1. Of Temnos,
the 20th of January, B..c. 52. (Ascon. in Cic. a distinguished Greek rhetorician of the time of
M[ilonian. p. 35. Orelli.) Pompey and Cicero. He belonged to the RhodiaJl
14. HERENNIUS, a young man of profligate school of oratory, and appears to have tried to excel
habits, whom Augustus expelled from the army. as an orator (or rather declaimer) as well as a
When the order was issued, he asked, " How shall teacher of rhetoric. (Quintil. v. 3. ~ 59, viii. pr.
I present myself at home? What can I say to ~ 3; Suid. s. v.'EpaayJpas.) But it is especially
my father?" " Tell him," replied Augustus, as a teacher of rhetoric that he is known to us. He
"that you did not like me." Herennius had been devoted particular attention to what is called the
scarred on the forehead by a stone, and boasted of invention, and made a peculiar division of the parts
it as an honourable wound. But Augustus coun- of an oration, which differed from that adopted by
selled him: " Herennius, next time you run away, other rhetoricians. (Quintil. iii. 1. ~ 16.) Cicero
do not look behind you." (Macrob. Sat. ii. 4.) (de Invent. i. 6) opposes his system, but Quintilian
15. M. HERENNIUS, M. f. PICENs, was consul defends it (iii. 3. ~ 9, 5. ~~ 4, 16, &c., 6. ~ 56),
suffectus in the last two months of B. c. 34. The though in some parts the latter censures what
cognomen PICENS is doubtful. As Picenum was a Cicero approves of. (Cic. de Invent. i. 11; Quintil.
Sabellian district, Picens may indicate a branch of iii. 6. ~ 60, &c.) But in his eagerness to systemathe Herennia Gens settled therein. [W. B. D.] tise the parts of an oration, he entirely lost sight
16. HERE'NNIUS CA'PITO, was procurator of of the practical point of view from which oratory
lamnia, near the coast of Palestine. He arrested must be regarded. (Quintil. iii. 11. ~ 22; Tacit.
Herodes Agrippa [AGRIPPA, HERODES, 1.] for a de Orat. 19.) He appears to have been the author
debt to the imperial treasury, and reported his de- of several works which are lost: Suidas mentions
falcation and consequent flight to the emperor'PTrlropeKat, Ilepl kepyaoi'as, rIepl dpp~ao-eS, flepl
Tiberius, A. D. 35-6. (Joseph. Antiq. xviii. 6. eXjAuadrWv, Ilep 7rperrov'o0. (See the passages in
~ 3, 4.) [W. B. D.] which Cicero discusses the views of Hermagoras in
HERE'NNIUS ETRUSCUS. [ETRuscus.] Orelli's Onom. Tull. s. v.; comp. Westermann,
Gescel. d. Griec/h. Beredtsamk. ~ 81. note 11, ~ 83.
notes 11-13; C. G. Piderit, de Hermaqora Rhe>9M toL l% EE) l~ d tore Commentatio, Hersfeld, 1839, 4to.)
/~IV.;,@..' ct 2. Surnamed Carion, likewise a Greek rhetori-'8 F t Adoo cian, who lived in the time of Augustus, and taught
CO~~~4~~~ ~k 1 H 7rhetoric at Rome, together with Caecilius, and is
called Hermagoras the younger. He was a disciple!~k~/~~ A) ~.X of Theodorus of Gadara. (Quintil. iii. 1. ~ 18;
Suid. s. v.'Epuaydpas, who confounds the Temnian
with Hermagoras Carion.) Whether the HermaCOIN OF HERENNIUS ETRUSCUS. goras with whom Pompey, on his return from Asia,
diisputed at Rhodes IIp! Ti's icaO''Anou 5T4aErews
HERE'NNIUS GALLUS. [GALLUS.] (Plat. Pomp. 42), is the younger or elder one, is
HERE'NNIUS MACER. [MACER.] uncertain.
HERE'NNIUS MODESTI'NUS. [MoDES- 3. Of Amphipolis, a Stoic philosopher and disT'INUS.] ciple of Perseus, the slave and afterwards freedman
HERE'NNIUS PO'LLIO. [POLLIO.] of Zeno. He is mentioned only by Suidas (I. c.),
HERE'NNIUS PO'NTIUS. [PONTIUS.] who also gives the titles of some of his works,
HERE'NNIUS SENE'CIO. [SENECIO.] which are completely lost. [L. S.]
HERE'NNIUS SEVE'RUS. [SEVERUS..] HERMANU'BIS ('Epmuavoveis), a son of Osiris
HERE'NNIUS SI'CULUS. [SICULUs.] and Nephthys, was represented as a human being
HERILLUS ("HpiAAos), of Carthage, a Stoic with a dog's head, and regarded as the symbol of
philosopher, was the disciple of Zeno of Cittium. the Egyptian priesthood, engaged in the investiHe did not, however, confine himself to the opi- gation of truth. (Plut. de Is. et Os. 61; Diod. i.
nions of his master, but held some doctrines directly 18, 87.) [L. S.]
opposed to them. He held that the chief good HERMAPHRODI'TUS ('Ep.uaap6&r'os). The
consisted in knowledge (4ir1ripIOu). This notion name is compounded of Hermes and Aphrodite,
is often attacked by Cicero, who in two places and is. synonymous with dvbpoyv'vs, y6'vavpoS,
speaks of his tenets as " jamdiu fracta et ex- 4i~ianvpos, &c. He was originally a male Aphrostincta," and as "jampridem explosa." He wrote dite (Aphroditus), and represented as a Hermes
someI books, which, according to Diogenes, were with the phallus, the symbol of fertility (Paus. i.
short, but full of force. Their titles were nIepl 19. ~ 2), but afterwards as a divine being comdarK7ecos, Iepl 7ra0c(v, fTepl veroX54wes, Nopo- bining the two sexes, and usually with the head,
OieTrs, MaLEV7UTLIJ,'AVTrePWec, 8(GioCrAos, ALe- breasts, and body of a female, but with the sexual
ake:,i4rc', EiVJowvr,'Ep/zq, Mf4seia, Aitakoyot, parts of a man. According to a tradition in Ovid
Oeerts ulOucai. Cleanthes wrote against him. (Met. iv. 285, &c.), he was a son of Hermes and
(Diog. Lairt. vii. 165, 166, 174; Cic. Acad. ii. Aphrodite, and consequently a great-grandson of
42, de Fin. ii. 11, 13, iv. 14, 15, v. 8. 25, de Atlas, whence he is called Atlantiadesor Atlantius.
Offic. i. 2, de Orat. iii. 17; Brucker, Hist. Psilos. (Ov. M1et. iv. 368; Hygin. Fab. 271.) He had
vol. i. p. 971; Ritter, Gesch. d. Philos. vol. iii. p. inherited the beauty of both his parents, and was
508; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 564; Krug, brought up by the nymphs of Mount Ida. In his
Heilli de summo Bono Sententia eXplosa non explo- fifteenth year he went to Caria; in the neighbourdenda, in the Symsbol. ad Hist. Phil. Lips. 1822, hood of Halicarnassus he laid down by the well
4to.) [P. S.] Salmacis. The nymph of the well fell in love with
HE'RIUS ASI'NIUS. [AsINIus, No. 1.] him, and tried to win his affections,. but in vain