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422 HERMOLAUS. HERMOLYCUS.
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. s. 6), who first made kidnapping by being deprived of his horse. Hermolaus, a lad
a capital offence (Cod. 9. tit. 20. s. 7). He was of high spirit, already verging on manhood, could
acquainted (Dig. 4. tit. 4. s. 7) with the consti- not brook this indignity: his resentment was intution of Constantine, bearing date A. D. 331, by flamed by the exhortations of the philosopher Calwhich 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, SosGodefroi, 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 Hermo- he slept, the duty of guarding his bed chamber degenianus 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,
s. 41,'Dig. 39. tit. 4. s. 10, Dig. 49. tit.. 14. s. 46. and the secret was inviolably kept, though thirty-:~ 7, he speaks of principes and imperatores 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 all
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 numendeavours to prove that he was so, from the men- ber, was to keep watch, the scheme was accidenttion which he makes in Dig. 24. tit. 1. s. 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 ditem;" 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
ad 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 wroteJJurisEpitomlae in six books, according to another, and on the whole a 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. [CALLISTHEcopied from Paulus, by whose side he is repeatedly NES.] Some authors also represented Hermolaus
quoted in the Digest. From his Epitomae 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 Palingenesia of Hommel. From the in- of Alexander. (Arr. Anab. iv. 132 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 ('Ep1dAaos), a Greek gramis 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. Fideicomnmis- epitome of the'EvLKPcd 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.'Epiu$Aaos.) 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 (Diet. of Ant. s. v. Codea emperor of that name cannot be clearly ascertained.
Gregorianus and Hermogenianus), but so many There seems no reason for doubting that the epipersons of the same name lived nearly at the same tome of Hermolaus is the same which is still extime, that this cannot be affirmed with certainty. tant, and which bears the title "'EcK TrCP 608LK6.h
(Ritter, ad Heinec. Hist. Jur. Rom. ~ 369). 2reqa'dvou Kaa' 47arLroopdv," but without the name
(Strauchius, Vitae Vet. ICt. p. 22; Jos. Finestres, of the author. In its present form even this epi-Comment. in Hermogeniani ICti Juris Epit. Libros tome seems to have suffered considerable abridgVI. 4to. Cervariae Lacetanorum, 1757; Mknage, ment and mutilation. Some passages in the work
Amoen. Jur. c. 11; Guil. Grotius. de Vit. ICtorum, have been supposed to furnish a few particulars
ii. 12. ~ 8; Bynkers, Obs. 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
HERMOLA'US ('Epuo'Aaos), 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. (Fato a custom instituted by Philip, attended Alex- bric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 622, &c.; Westermann,
ander the Great as pages. It was during the Praefat. adStep..Byzant. pp.v.xxiv.&c. [C.P.M.]
residence of the king at Bactra in the spring of HERMOLA'US, statuary. [POLYnECTUS.]
B. C. 327, that a circumstance occurred which led HERMO'LYCUS ('Epl6oAvKos), an Athenian,
him, in conjunction with some of his fellow pages, son of Euthynus, was distinguished as a pancrato form a conspiracyagainst the life of Alexander. tiast, and gained the dpLorTeia 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
constant 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.]