HERMUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Ionia; which
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Hero. which rising near Dorylaeum, a town of Phrygia, in a mountain sacred to Dindymene or Cybele, touched Mylia, and ran through the Regio Combuſta, then through the plains of Smyrna down to the ſea, carrying along with it the Paſtolus, Hyllus, and other leſs noble rivers. Its waters were ſaid, by Virgil and other poets, to roll down gold.