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<b class="b2">Small figure of Hermes</b>: Ἑρμήδιον, τό (Ar., <b class="b2">Pax.</b> 924). | <b class="b2">Small figure of Hermes</b>: Ἑρμήδιον, τό (Ar., <b class="b2">Pax.</b> 924). | ||
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|lshtext=<b>Hermes</b>: or Herma, ae, m., = [[Ἑρμῆς]]> ([[Hermes]], [[Mercury]]; [[hence]] transf., cf. Liddell and Scott under [[Ἑρμῆς]]>),<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Deriv.: Hermae-um, i, n., a [[temple]] of [[Hercules]], Hermœum.<br /> <b>A</b> The [[name]] of a [[summer]]-[[house]]: in diaetam, cui [[nomen]] est [[Hermaeum]], recesserat, Suet. Claud. 10.—<br /> <b>B</b> A [[frontier]] [[town]] of Bœotia, [[over]] [[against]] Eubœa, Liv. 35, 50, 9. | |||
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