HERMOGENES Tarsensis, a rhetorician and orator, and who was in every respect a prodigy. At 17 years of age he published his system of rhetoric, and at 20 his philosophic ideas: but at 25 he forgot every thing he had known. It is said, that, his body being opened after his death, his heart was found of an extraordinary size, and all over hairy. He died about 168 B. C.