and Etruria, a celebrated country of Italy, at the west of the Tyber. It originally contained 12 different nations, which had each their respective monarch. Their names were Veientes, Clusini, Perusini, Cortonenses, Arretini, Vetuloni, Volaterrani, Rueliani, Volcini, Tarquinii, Falisci, and Caetani. The inhabitants were particularly famous for their superstition and strict confidence in omens, dreams, auguries, &c. They all proved powerful and resolute enemies to the rising empire of the Romans, and were conquered only after much effusion of blood.

Helvæi (anc. geog.), one of the seven people who occupied Canaan; a principal and numerous people, and the name with the Kadmoni, dwelling at the foot of Hermone. HEU

Heuchera Hermon and partly of Libanus, or between Libanus and Hermon (Judges iii. 3.) To this Bachart refers the fables concerning Cadmus and his wife Harmonia, or Hermonia, changed to serpents; the name Hevi denoting a wild beast, such as is a serpent. Cadmus, who is said to have carried the use of letters to Greece, seems to have been a Kadmonean; of whom the Greeks say that he came to their country from Phoenicia.