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Hermes1

Hermes1 · m

a Hermes pillar

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Epigrammata 16 · 2.84/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k

What it meant

Hermes — Lewis & Short

Hermes or Herma, ae, m., = *(ermh=s (Hermes, Mercury; hence transf., cf. Liddell and Scott under *(ermh=s),

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.

In the wild

Hermen Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri pr.p2
Herma Cicero, De Inventione 1.8
Hermes Martial, Epigrammata 5.24.10
Hermae Cornelius Nepos, Alcibiades 3
Hermes Martial, Epigrammata 5.24.14
Hermes Martial, Epigrammata 5.24.4

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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