⁂ Mrs. Barbauld has borrowed this allegory, but instead of Herculês has substituted Melissa, “a young girl,” who is accosted by Dissipation and Housewifery. While she is somewhat in doubt which to follow, Dissipation’s mask falls off, and immediately Melissa beholds such a “wan and ghastly countenance,” that she turns away in horror, and gives her hand to the more sober of the two ladies.—_Evenings at Home_, xix. (1795). _Herculês’s Horse_, Arion, given him by Adrastos. It had the gift of human speech, and its feet on the right side were those of a man. _Herculês’s Pillars_, Calpê and Ab´yla, one at Gibraltar and the other at Ceuta (_3 syl._). They were torn asunder by Alcīdês on his route to Gadês (_Cadiz_). _Herculês’s Ports_: (1) “Herculis Corsani Portus” (now called _Porto-Ercolo_, in Etruria); (2) “Herculis Liburni Portus” (now called _Livorno_, _i.e._ Leghorn); (3) “Herculis Monœci-Portus” (now called _Monaco_, near Nice). _Herculês (The Attic)_, Theseus (_2 syl._), who went about, like Herculês, destroying robbers, and performing most wonderful exploits. _Herculês (The Cretan)._ All the three Idæan Dactyls were so called: viz., Kelmis (“the smelter”), Damnamĕneus (“the hammer”), and Acmon (“the anvil”). _Herculês (The Egyptian)_, Sesostris (fl. B.C. 1500). Another was Som or Chon, called by Pausanias, Macĕris, son of Amon. _Herculês (The English)_, Guy, earl of Warwick (890-958). Warwick ... thou English Herculês. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xiii. (1613). _Herculês (The Farnesê)_, a statue, the work of Glykon, copied from one by Lysip´pos, called Farnesê, because formerly in the Farnesê palace in Rome with the Farnesê Bull, the Flora, and the Gladiator. All but the Gladiator are now in the Naples Museum. The Gladiator is in the British Museum. The “Farnesê Herculês” represents the hero exhausted by toil, leaning on his club; and in his left hand, which rests on his back, he holds one of the apples of the Hesperĭdês. ⁂ A copy of this famous statue stands in the Tuileries gardens of Paris. An excellent description of the statue is given by Thomson, in his _Liberty_, iv. _Herculês_ (_The Indian_), Dorsănês, who married Pandæa, and became the progenitor of the Indian kings. Belus is sometimes called “The Indian Herculês.” _Herculês_ (_The Jewish_), Samson (died B.C. 113). _Herculês_ (_The Russian_), Rustum. _Herculês_ (_The Swedish_), Starchatĕrus (first Christian century). =Hercules of Music=, Christoph von Glück (1714-1787). =Herculês Secundus.= Commŏdus, the Roman emperor, gave himself this title. He was a gigantic idiot, who killed 100 lions, and overthrew 1000 gladiators in the amphitheatre (161, 180-195). =Heren-Suge= (_The_), a seven-headed hydra of Basque mythology, like the Deccan cobras. =Heretics= (_Hammer of_), Pierre d’Ailly (1350-1425). John Faber is also called “The Hammer of Heretics,” from the title of one of his works (*-1541). _Heretics_ (_Scientific_).