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Definition of Hermae
1. herma [n] - See also: herma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hermae
Literary usage of Hermae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"The affair of the hermae was dropped, and attention was fixed once more upon the
affair of the ... hermae ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"It was in the affair of the hermae alone that he was implicated. The first
important evidence in this matter was given by ..."
3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"4. The advice of Alcibiades adopted. He gains over Naxos and Catana. § 5.
Proceedings at Athena respecting the mutilation of the hermae, and the profanation ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"Then we find it among the eighteen hermae* which flanked a vine- covered arcade,
the special ornament of the beautiful gardens attached to the famous beard, ..."
5. Greece, from the Coming of the Hellenes to A. D. 14 by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1906)
"... BC 415— Alleged profanation of the mysteries—Mutilation of the hermae— The
difficulties of the expedition—Siege of Syracuse begun BC 414—The Spartans ..."
6. Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea: A by Ida Carleton Thallon (1914)
"MUTILATION OF THE HERM^E AND BURLESQUE OF THE MYSTERIES The incident of the
mutilation of the hermae was one of the famous mysteries of antiquity. ..."
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