A.interpreter, esp. of foreign tongues, dragoman, Hdt.2.125,154, al., X.An.1.2.17, PCair.Zen.65 (iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank9.1 (ii B.C.), etc.
b. court interpreter, POxy.237 vii 37 (ii A. D.), etc.
2. matrimonial agent, go-between, Ptol. Tetr. 181.
3. broker, commissionaire, POxy.1517.6 (iii A. D.), etc.
II. interpreter, expounder, Pi.O.2.85, A.Ag.616, 1062, etc.; ἑρμηνῆς τῶν θεῶν, of poets, Pl.Ion534e; “λόγος τῶν νόμων ἑ.” Id.Lg.907d; “σιωπὴ δ᾽ ἄπορος ἑ. λόγων” E.Fr.126.
2. applied to planets, D.S.2.30.