. of Hestia at Hermione (ii. 35, 1); butin general no separate temple was erected,since every prytaneum was a sanctuary of thegoddess, and a portion of the sacrifices, to what-ever divinity they were offered, belonged worship of the Roman Vesta is spoken ofunder Vesta. No description remains of thestatue of Hestia in the Athenian Prytaneum(Puus. i. 18, 8); nor of that which Tiberiustransferred from Paros to Rome (Dio Cass. ). The famous Giustiniani Hestia in theTorlonia Museum is generally taken to repre-sent Hestia, bu
. of Hestia at Hermione (ii. 35, 1); butin general no separate temple was erected,since every prytaneum was a sanctuary of thegoddess, and a portion of the sacrifices, to what-ever divinity they were offered, belonged worship of the Roman Vesta is spoken ofunder Vesta. No description remains of thestatue of Hestia in the Athenian Prytaneum(Puus. i. 18, 8); nor of that which Tiberiustransferred from Paros to Rome (Dio Cass. ). The famous Giustiniani Hestia in theTorlonia Museum is generally taken to repre-sent Hestia, but there are no certain indica-tions, and it might stand for other goddesses,such as Hera or Demeter. The left hand origi-nally held a sceptre, or, perhaps, if it is-Hestia,u torch. Hestiaeotis (Ea-ncwns). 1. The NW. partof Thessaly [Thessalia].—2. Or Histiaea, adistrict in Euboea. [Euboea.] Hesychlus (Ho-vxtos). 1. An Alexandrinegrammarian, under whose name a largo Greekdictionary has como down to us. Respectinghis personal history nothing is known, but he. 414 HETKICULUM HIEBO probably lived about 380. The work isbased, as the writer himself tells us, upon thelexicon of Diogenianus. Hesychius was pro-bably a pagan : the Christian glosses and thereferences to Christian writers in the work areinterpolations by a later hand. The work is oneof great importance, not only on account of itsexplaining the words of the Greek language,but also from its containing much literary andarchaeological information, derived from earliergrammarians and commentators, whose worksare lost. The arrangement of the work, however,is very defective. Editions by Alberti, com-pleted after Albertis death by Ruhnken, 1746-1766, 2 vols. fol.; and by , Jen. 1868.—2. Of Miletus, surnamedIllustris, from some office which he held, livedabout 540, and wrote an Onomasticon,published by Orelli, Lips. 1820. Hetriculuia, a town of the Bruttii. Hiarbas. [Hiempsal.] Hibernia, also cal
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