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HERMUS

Volume 10 · 68 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a river of Ionis; which HER

which rising near Dorvlacum, a town of Phrygia, in a mountain sacred to Dindymene or Cybele, touched Mysia, and ran through the Regio Combusta, 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.