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BW.^  Its  pnitioii  eomaponds  with  ll»t  of  the  mod-
em Demenkvr.  Tb«  seeoiid  wu  termed  HrTuAf
(JfcjmiX  or  the  great,  and  ww  ittnate  in  tbe  Heptan*
ami*,  on  ihe  western  bank  of  tbe  Nile,  oppoaile  Anii*
QOOpoliB.  It  ia  spoken  irf'  n  a  Urge  tiity  by  Anoiitaiat
MaicelKnua  (»,  16).  The  inhabiUnU  worriiipped
ibe  CyiMcepbalus,  or  dog-heeded  dieity  Anvbie.  (Ann-
Neri,  iSofrr.,  nri.  10,  pt.  S,  p.  897.)  The  bbbm  of
the  place  is  now  Aakmuneim.
HBRMNodci,  tlu  ficat  of  the  H«nBioi^  Iriboa.in
GwKuif .  Th»r  ««n  A  ^raBt  tad  jMnrnfoF  HAfon,
and  bjr  to  Ao  eaat-  and  Baidieaal  or  the  Alletuniii.
TaeiliM  am,  that  in  procea  of  time  tbey  became  A-
lies  to  tbe  nomana,  who  diatingviabed  them  ahove  tbe
odierGenHaaB  by  peculiar  piivd^ea.  (Germ.,  e.  41.)
Maoneit  makea  them  a  MDcfa  of  the  gnat  Somic
lece.   {Geagr.,  «l^8,  p.  *>!.)

HcRiraSt  a  cuaiderable  rivar  of  Aaia  Minor,  tiBing,
■ccoiiiiig  to  Sttabo  (6M),  m  Mount  Dhtdymui,  tn
Fbmiii  Mid  flowing  thiooffb  the  noftbem  part  of
I^ia  mdk  it  ftU*  into  the  ^gnan.  Pliny,  howem,
makee  it*  aoarce  to  havd  been  near  Dorykeom  io
Phi^^ia.  {Plm.,  ft,  St.)  It  receiTed  in  its  coiu>e
tbe  rivers  Pactolas,  Hylhi*,  called  aieo  Pfairoioa,  and
oUier  less  celebrated  Btreams,and  discharged  itseTf  into
ibf»  sea  between  PbocBa  and  Smyrna.  (SfroA.,  I.  c. —
Heni.,  1,  m.—Arrmt^  Exp.  Al.,  5,  6.)  The  phiiiB
iMiieh  ifats  river  watered  were  termed  the  plaiM  oT
Henma,  and  Iht  gtrif  into  which  it  diechkrged  itself
waa  'Utciently  eaUed  tbe  Hennnan  Golf;  bat  when
Theseus,  ^e«»>rding  to  some  accounts,  a  person  of  dis*
tinction  in  Tbessaly,  migrated  hither,  and  founded  a
town  on  thta  gnlf  called  Smyrna  aAs  his  wile  ( Vit.
