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

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symptoms of a most careful study of the ancients. that, under the fictitious name of Pantolabus (Sat.
These excellencies, which at once place him on a i. 8, 11, ii. 1, 21), Horace alludes to Hermogenes,
level with the most distinguished teachers of rhe- for the prosody of the two names is the same, so
toric, are reasons enough to make us regret that his that one may be substituted for the other. (Comp.
brilliant career was cut off so early and so fatally. Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliquiae, p. 297, &c.; Kirch(Comp. Westermann, Gesch. der Griech. Beredtsam- ner, Quaestion. Horatianae, p. 42, &c. [L. S.]
keit, ~ 95; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 69, &c.) HERMO'GENES ('Epuoye'vvs), of Pontus, was
7. The author of a history of Phrygia, in which praefectus praetorio Orientis A. D. 359. He is
he also made mention of the Jews. (Schol. ad Apol- probably the Hermogenes mentioned by Libanius
lon. Rhod. ii. 722; Joseph. c. Apion. i. 23; comp. as the best of all the magistrates of his time, though
Plut. de FlPv. 17.) commonly supposed to be rough and severe. This
8. Of Tarsus, an historian of the time of the character of Hermogenes agrees with that given by
emperor Domitian, who put him to death on ac- Ammianus, who says that when Constantius desired
count of certain expressions in his history, and to establish an inquisitorial tribunal (A. D. 359), on
those who had copied the work for sale were occasion of some troubles in Egypt, Hermogenes
nailed on the cross. (Suet. Domit. 10.) was not appointed, " as being of too mild a temper."
9. A painter, perhaps a native of Carthage, who. Hermnnogenes died soon after, and was succeeded in
lived at the time of Tertullian, about the end of his praefectureby Helpidius. [HELPIDIUS.] This
the second and the beginning of the third century Hermogenes is to be distinguished from the officer
of our era, and is known to us only through Ter- of the same name sent to depose Paulus, bishop of
tullian, who attacked him most severely, and wrote Constantinople (A. D. 342), and murdered in the
a work against him. (Adversus Hermogenem.) He tumult excited by that proceeding; as well as from
seems to have been originally a pagan, but after- the ex-praefect of Egypt, to whom the emperor J'uwards to have become a convert to Christianity. lian addressed a letter; and from the proconsul of
The cause of the hostility is not very clear; we Achaia, to whom the sophist Himerius addressed
learn only that Hermogenes married several times, one of his discourses. It is uncertain from which
for which Tertullian calls him a man given to vo- of these persons (if from any) a part of the horses,
luptuousness and a heretic. It would also seem of Cappadocian breed, in the imperial stud were
that Hermogenes, who was a man of high education called "' Equi Hermogeniani," by which name they
and great knowledge, continued to study the pagan are mentioned in edicts of Valentinian I. and of
philosophers after his conversion to Christianity; Arcadius. (Amm. Marc. xix. 12, xxi. 6; Liban.
and attempted to reconcile scriptural statements de Vita sea, Opera, vol. ii. p. 39, 40, ed. Morell;
with the results of philosophical investigations, Phot; Bibl. cod. 165; Julian. Ep-ist. 23, Opera, p.
though, according to Tertullian's own statement, 389, ed. Spanhem. fol. Lips. 1696; Cod. Theod.
Hermogenes did not advance any new or heretical 10. tit. 6. ~ 1; 15. tit. ] 0. ~ 1; Tillemont, Hist.
opinion on the person of Christ. His enemy also des Emp. vol. iv.) [J. C. M.]
calls him a bad painter, and says, illicite pinyit, HERMO'GENES ('EpuoAermns), the name of
but to what he alludes by this expression is uncer- several ancient physicians, whom it is difficult to
tain: some think that Hermogenes painted subjects distinguish with certainty. 1. A physician in attaken from the pagan mythology, which Tertullian tendance on the emperor Hadrian at the time of
would surely have expressed more explicitly. The his death, A. D. 138. (Dion Cass. lxix. 22.)
philosophical views which Tertullian endeavours 2. A physician mentioned in an epigram of Luto refute seem to have been propounded by Her- cilius in the Greek Anthology (xi. 257, vol. ii. p.
mogenes in a work(adv. Hernog. 2), for his enemy 59, ed. Tauchn), which has been imitated by
repeatedly refers to his argumentationes, (Comp. Martial (vi. 53), and also in another epigram in
August. de Haeres. xli.; Tertull. de AIonogam. 16; the same collection attributed to Nicarchus (xi.
Theodoret. Fab. Haeret. i. 19.) Theodoretus and 114, vol. ii. p. 29).
Eusebius (Iist. Eccles. iv. 24) state, that Theophi- 3. One of the followers and admirers of Erasislus of Alexandria and Origen also wrote against tratus, mentioned by Galen (De Simplic. Medicaie.
Hermogenes, but it is uncertain whether this is the Temper. ac Facult. i. 29, vol. xi. p. 432), who is
same as the painter. [L. S.] supposed to be the same physician who is said
HERMO'GENES, M. TIGE'LLIUS, a no- 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 hispassage (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 [CHAafterwards (Sat. i. 10. 80) he speaks of him as an RIDEMrus], he lived probably in the third or second
opponent and an enemy. The scholiasts of Horace century.. 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, Lound. 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'NUS, the latest Roman juwithout 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, Inser. p. 70). In Dig. 48.
is a very ingenious and highly probable conjecture tit. 15. s. ult., he says that the pecuniary punishis 3