The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . guide(psychopompos) of theshades of the dead to theirfinal abode. In art he isrepresented as a vigorousyouth, beardless after the archaic period, and usually butslightly draped, with caduceus. petasus, and talaria asattributes. The Roman Mercuiy, a god of much morematerial and sordid character, became identified with Her-mes. See the cut of Hermes of Praxiteles, under Greek, a. The basest horn of his hoof is more musical than thepipe of Hermes. Shalr., Hen. V., i
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . guide(psychopompos) of theshades of the dead to theirfinal abode. In art he isrepresented as a vigorousyouth, beardless after the archaic period, and usually butslightly draped, with caduceus. petasus, and talaria asattributes. The Roman Mercuiy, a god of much morematerial and sordid character, became identified with Her-mes. See the cut of Hermes of Praxiteles, under Greek, a. The basest horn of his hoof is more musical than thepipe of Hermes. Shalr., Hen. V., iii. 7. That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave. Milton, Comus, 1. 637. 2. [(. c.; pi. hermce (-me).] In Gr. antiq., ahead or bust supported upon a quadrangular base, wliichcorrespondsroughly in massto the absentbody, and oftenbears in front aphallus as anindication ofthe sex. Thebustwas often double-faced, as if repre-senting two indi-vidiuils back toback. These mon-uments were socalled because thegod Hermes wasfrequently so rep-resented. .Suchstatues of him wereplaced at the doorsof houses in Ath-ens, and at the cor-. Double Hermes, in Central Museum, Athens. ners of streets, in his character as tutelary divinity of Iiigh-ways and boundaries, in gymnasia, and in other publicplaces. The hernite were held in great reverence as guard-ing or symbolizing many of the common interests of The Egyptian god Thoth, as identified with the Greek Hermes Hermes Trlsmegistus (Gr. EpiLi^? Tpt? jiie7i(TTo?, L. Hermes Trimaximus, thrice-greatest Hermes), a name of the Egjptian god Thoth,under which many Greek works (forty-two according toClement of Alexandria) were ascribed to him in the secondcentury A. I). (See Hermetic, 2.) The Egyptians calledThoth twice greatest, and the Greek writers of thesebooks called him thrice greatest. Hermesian (her-mesi-an), a. [< Hermes (seedef.) + -m«.] Pertaining to Georg Hermesianism. Hermesianism (her-mesi-an-izm),
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