or **Hermarpocrates**, in antiquity, a deity, or figure of a deity, composed of Mercury, and Harpoecrates the god of silence.

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

**HERMIANI,**