Hermes

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Hermes or Herma, ae, m., = Ἑρμῆς (Hermes, Mercury; hence transf., cf. Liddell and Scott under Ἑρμῆς),

I a Hermes pillar , Hermes , a head carved on the top of a square pedestal or post; such pillars of Hermes stood, esp. in Athens, in several public places and before private houses, Macr. S. 1, 19; Serv. Verg. A. 8. 138; Nep. Alcib. 3; Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 65; id. Att. 1, 8, 2; Juv. 8, 53.—

II Deriv.: Hermae-um , i, n., a temple of Hercules , Hermaeum.

A The name of a summer-house : in diaetam, cui nomen est Hermaeum, recesserat, Suet. Claud. 10.—

B A frontier town of Boeotia , over against Euboea , Liv. 35, 50, 9.

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