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 1058 HEBMIONES. the fenrnum of the lower world. (Paiu. iL 85 ; Stmb. viii. p. 373.) From Uemuone a peninsula, now called Kranidki^ extends towards the south and west It contains two promontories, on each of which there are Hel- lenic remains. Pansanias names two ancient places, called Halice and Mases, on the road from Hermione to Asine, both of which most have been situated in this peninsula, but he gives no further indication of their position. It has been conjectured that the Hellenic remains near C Mutdki^ on the more easterly of the two promontories above mentioned, are those of Halice; and that the remains on the more westerly promontory at Port KMi represent Masesr but there are good reasons fw believing that the ruins near C. MtigaJd are those of some town the name of which has not been recorded ; that Halice, or, as it is also called, Halieis, stood at Port Khdi; and that Mases was situated more to the north, on the western coast, at Port KilddhiO. In the time of Pausanias, Mases served as the liarbonr of Hermione. [Halieis ; Mases.] Towards the east the frontier of the Hermionis and Troezenia was marked by a temple of Demeter Thermasia, close to the sea, 80 stadia westward of Cape Scyllaeum, the name of which has been preserved in that of Tkirmm, (Pans. ii. 34. § 6.) Near this temple, on the road from Troezen to Hermione, was a small place called EiLRi (EtXcot), the name of which has been pre- served in the modem Ilio, Westward the Hermioois seems to have extended as fiir as the territory of Asine. On the road from Mases to Asine. Pausanias mentions the promontory Struthus (2Tpv0oi;s); at the distance of 250 stadia from which, by a mountain path, were Philanorium (^lAw^wr) and BoLEi (BoAcot), the latter being the name of a heap of stones: 20 stadia beyond Bolei was a place called Didymi [Didymi]. (Leake, MoreOy vol. ii. p. 457, seq., Peloponrnmaca^ p. 281, seq. ; Boblaye, RechercKet, ^. p. 60 ; Curtins, Pelopon- nesot, vol. ii. p. 454, seq.) HERMIONES, one of the three great divisions into which, according to Tacitus (GernL 2), the Ger- man nation was divided. These divisicms were the Jngaevones, inhabiting the country near the ocean; the HermioneSf occupying the central parts of Ger- many; and the rest were called Ittaevonet, All three were said to have received their names frcxn the three sons of Mannns; and as the one after whom the Uermiones were called, bore the name of JJermtno, IrminOt or /rmin, Grimm {Deutsche MythoL i. p. 320, 2nd ed.) suggests that their name should be written HermmtmeM^ which is actually the reading of one of the MSS. of Tacitus. Pliny (iv. 28), instead of three, mentions five great divisions of the Germans, and makes the Hermiones the fourth, adding that they included the Suevi, Hermunduri, Chatti, and Cherusd. Modem writers have hazarded numerous conjectures as to the different tribes contained in these three or five groups; but it will ever remain impossible to arrive at any satisfactoiy result. (See also Mela, iii. 3; Orph. Argon, 1134.) [L. S.] IIERMIO'NICUS SINUS. [Hbrmiome.] HERMIONIS. [Hermione.] HERMISIUM (Pomp. Mela, ii. 1. § 3 ; Plin. iv. 12), a town on the W. coast of the Tauric Cher- sonesns. [E. B. J.] HERMON. [Antilibanits.] HERMONACTIS VICUS C Lpfuiviutros Kfifiv, Strab. vii. p. 30G ? PtoL iii. 10. § 14), a place in Samiatia Europaca, near the mouth of the Tyras, HEBMOPOtl^ where was the tower of Neoptolemns (Slnt>.le.; comp. Anon. PeripL p. 10), perhaps a lightkBBse. In this neighbourhood, not hag since, the icoianB of an old tower were fioand. (KSler, Mem. de lAottL de SL Petersb. toI. x. p. 580.) [£. B. J.] HEBBIONACUM or HEBMOMACUif, ok of the many names of towns ending in aeum in Korth Gallia, is placed by the Table ^tween Camamn and Bagacnm (Cambray, and Baotqf% and 8 firam Bagacum, which is 8 Gallic leagues. lyAnvillefiadsa place Bermeran^ between Cambrc^tad Botfog^ wUdk he supposes to represent Hennonaciun. [6. L.] HERMONASSA CEpfu^rwrira, Dianyi. 552; Sc7mn.>r. 152 ; Pomp, MeU, L 19. § 5 ; PwL v.* 9 ; ^tepb. B. a. v.), a place lying between Siadica and Phanagoria, which Bennell (^Compar. Getg. voL ii. p 331) fixes at the opening of the lake into which the Kuban river flows. [E. B. J.] HERMONTHIS ("Ep/<«r6»,Stepb. B. a. v.; Stiabi xvii. p. 817; Aristid. Aegyptiae^ p. 568; Hcr- munthis,/^. ilnton. p. 160; Plin. v. 9. § II ; Macntu S<Uum. I 21), the modem £rmenty was the chief town of the Hermonthite nrane in the ThcbaSd — " ThebaSs Superior" of the ItmetBiiea. It itood about eight miles SW. of Thebes, and 24 NS. «r Latopolis, in lat. 25° lO' N. A little above Hcn»- this the sandstone rocks which had confined the X3e like a wail disappear, and limestone hOls sneesBd, leaving, especially on the wcetem bank of the riter, wider margins of cultivable land. In m pbia d this expanding character, and on the left aide of the Nile, stood Hennonthis. In the Phamonic times it was celebrated fw the worship of Isis, Osiris, aai their son Horns. Its ruins still attest the magitt- cence of its buildings; but the Iseion, of whidi tic remains are extant, was built in the reign of the hit Cleopatra (b. c. 51 — 29), and the acnlptaieB appev to allude to the birth of Caesarian, her son by J«- lius Caesar, qrmbolised as that of the god Barpke, the son of Mandon and Ritha Its astnooBooI ceiling is probably genethliacal, referring to th» aspect of the heavens at the time of Caeeukn^s na- tivity. Adjacent to the temple are the Testigesef a tank, which probably served as a NUometcr, since its sides exhibit the grooves nsnal in sneb hasiak Under the later Caesars, Hennonthis was the bead- quartere of the Legio Ilda Valentiniana. (Cham- pollion, LEgypie, voL L p. 195.) [W. B. D.] HERMOTOLIS MAGNA (^Epiulv wiKu tuy43^ Steph. B. a. v.; Ptol. It. 5. § 60; Hermopolia, Am- mian, ii. 16 ; HermupoUa, It. Anton^ pp. 154, ae^.; Mercurii Oppidum, Plin.T. 9. § 11 : Etk. 9oiti9s or 'E^MOwoXfnfs), the modem was situated on the left bank of the Kile, ahoot IM. 27^ 4' N., and was the capital of the Hermopofiu nome in the Heptanomis. It h sometimeB, indeed, as bj Pliny, reckoned among the ciUes ik Ujfcr and not of Middle Egypt. Hennopdis stood on tht bordons of these divisions of Egypt, and, for many ages, the Thebald or upper country extended mach further to the N. than in mere recent periods. As the border town, Hermopolis was a place of gnat resort and opulence, ranlung second to Thebes akiia. A little to S. of the city was the castle of Henns- polis, at which point the river craft from the vpfer countiy paid toll {'Lp/wvoktrdini pvKaie^ Sdabi xvii. p. 813; Ptd. (. c ; the Bakr Jugmf of thi'*^- Arabians). The grottos of Beni-hassan, near kti&^ noopolis, upon the opposite bank of the Kile, mrr the common cemetcuy of the HermopoIitaRs, fir, although the rirer divided, the cilj from its neov-