Hermes
μή μοι θεοὺς καλοῦσα βουλεύου κακῶς· πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ, γυνὴ Σωτῆρος· ὦδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος → When you invoke the gods, do not be ill-advised. For Obedience is the mother of Success, wife of Salvation—as the saying goes.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ἑρμῆς -οῦ, ὁ, or say, son of Maia.
Temple of Hermes: Ἑρμαῖον, τό.
Statues of Hermes: Ἑρμαῖ, οἱ.
Small figure of Hermes: Ἑρμήδιον, τό (Ar., Pax. 924).
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
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, Hermœum.
A The name of a summer-house: in diaetam, cui nomen est Hermaeum, recesserat, Suet. Claud. 10.—
B A frontier town of Bœotia, over against Eubœa, Liv. 35, 50, 9.
