or HERMARPOCRA-TES, in antiquity, a deity, or figure of a deity, composed of Mercury, and Harpocrates the god of Silence.

M. Spon gives us a hermharpocrates in his Recr. Cur. de l'Antiquité, p. 98. fig. 15, having wings on his feet like Mercury, and laying his finger on his mouth like Harpocrates. It is probable they might mean, by this combination, that silence is sometimes eloquent.