uguries, &c. They all proved powerful and resolute enemies to the rising empire of the Romans, and were conquered only after much effusion of blood.

HEVÆI, in Ancient Geography, one of the seven tribes who occupied Canaan; a principal and numerous people, and the fame with the Kadmonæi, dwelling at the foot of Hermon and part of Libanus, or between Libanus and Hermon (Judges iii. 3.). To that Boch- art refers the fables concerning Cadmus and his wife Harmonia, or Hermonia, changed to serpents; the Hewi 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 Kadmonæan; of whom the Greeks say that he came to their country from Phœnicia.