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Hermo-
combining form of Hermes, as in Hermoˈglyphic, Herˈmoglyphist [cf. Gr. ἑρµογλυϕικός pertaining to a statuary, f. ἑρµογλυϕεύς a carver of Hermæ, a statuary] (see quots.). Hermokopid [ad. Gr. ἑρµοκοπίδης], a mutilator of Hermæ: in quot. used attrib.
1623Cockeram, Hermogliphicke, a grauer of Images. 1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. cxvi, Sophroniscus is somewhere mentioned by Lucian as an hermoglyphist; a person, whose business it was to engrave inscriptions on marble, or rather on the Hermaic statues. 1849Grote Greece ii. lviii. (1862) V. 173 The facts disclosed indicated the band of Hermokopid conspirators to be numerous. |