A.terminal bust (cf. “Ἑρμῆς” 1.2) with head of Athena, Cic.Att.1.1.5, 1.4.3; so of busts with heads of other divinities, of Eros, Ἑρμ-έρως , Plin.HN36.33 (pl.); of Heracles, Ἑρμ-ηρακλῆς , Cic.Att.1.10.3, Milet.1(7) No.305; of Pan, cf. Ἑρμόπαν. (Cic.Att.1.4.3 appears to explain Hermathena as a Janus-like bust of Hermes and Athena; this is perh. a pun, but cf. “Ἑρμῆς” 1.2.)
Ἑρμ-α^θήνη , ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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