according to some, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite; according to others, the son of Dionysus and a Naiad, the son of Adonis and Aphrodite, the son of Hermes, and the son of Pan or a satyr. He is reported to have been born at Lampsacus on the Hellespont (whence the name Hellesponticus), of extreme ugliness, and with unusually large genitals. He was worshipped as the promoter of fertility, both vegetable and animal. First-fruits were offered to him; milk, honey, and cakes; rams, asses, and fishes. He was represented in carved images, mostly in the form of hermæ, or of a head placed on a quadrangular pillar, painted red (whence ruber or rubicundus is applied to him by Ovid, Fasti, i. 415, vi. 319, 333), carrying fruit in his garment, and either a sickle or cornucopia in his hand.