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Hermes or Herma, ae, m., = Ἑρμῆς (Hermes, Mercury; hence transf., cf. Liddell and Scott under Ἑρμῆς), 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.— Deriv.: Hermae-um, i, n., a temple of Hercules, Hermœum. The name of a summer-house: in diaetam, cui nomen est Hermaeum, recesserat, Suet. Claud. 10.— A frontier town of Bœotia, over against Eubœa, Liv. 35, 50, 9.

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