Hermŏgĕnes

, an architect of A lab and a in Caria, employed in building the temple of Diana at Magnesia. He wrote a book upon his profe ion.――A rhetorician in the second century, the best editions of whose rhetoric a are that of Sturmius, 3  vols. , 12mo, Str as bourg, 1571, and of Laurentius, Geneva, 1614. He died A.D. 161, and it is said that his body was opened, and his heart found hairy and of an extraordinary size. At the age of 25, as is reported, he totally lost his memory.――A lawyer in the age of Diocletian.――A musician. Horace , bk. 1 , satire 3, li. 129 .――A sophist of Tarsus, of such brilliant talents, that at the age of 15 he excited the attention and gained the patronage of the emperor Marcus Ant on in us.