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