=Hero and Leander= (_3 syl._). Hero, a priestess of Venus, fell in love with Leander, who swam across the Hellespont every night to visit her. One night he was drowned in so doing, and Hero in grief threw herself into the same sea.—Musæus, _Leander and Hero_.
=Hero of Fable= (_The_), the duc de Guise. Called by the French _L’Hero de la Fable_ (1614-1664).
=Hero of History= (_The_), the duc d’Enghien, Prince of Condé. Called by the French _L’Hero de l’Histoire_. This was Le grand Condé (1621-1687).
=Hero of Modern Italy=, Garibaldi (1807-1882).
=Herodias.= Divorced wife of Herodius Philippus, afterward married to Herod Antipas, Mother of Salome and murderer of John the Baptist.
=Her´on= (_Sir George_), of Chip-chace, an officer with Sir John Foster.—Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth).
=Heros´tratos= or EROSTRATOS, the Ephesian who set fire to the temple of Ephesus (one of the seven wonders of the world) merely to immortalize his name. The Ephesians made it penal even to mention his name.
Herostratus shall prove vice governes fame. Who built that church he burnt hath lost his name. Lord Brooke, _Inquisition upon Fame_ (1554-1628).
=Herrick.= Overseer on a Virginia plantation, whose only daughter is burned to death trying to save a favorite horse of the man she loves hopelessly.—Amelia C. Rives-Chanler, _Virginia of Virginia_, (1888).
=Herries= (_Lord_), a friend of Queen Mary of Scotland, and attending on her at Dundrennan.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbott_ (time, Elizabeth).
=Herschel= (_Sir F. Wm._) discovered the eighth planet, at first called the _Georgium sidus,_ in honor of George III., and now called _Saturn_. In allusion to this, Campbell says he
Gave the lyre of heaven another string. _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1799.)
=Hertford= (_The marquis of_), in the court of Charles II.—Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth).
=Her Trippa=, meant for Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of Nettesheim, philosopher and physician. “Her” is a contraction of _He´ricus_, and “Trippa” a play on the words _Agrippa_ and _tripe_.—Rabelais, _Pantag´ruel_, iii. 25 (1545).
=Herwig=, king of Hel´igoland, betrothed to Gudrun, daughter of King Hettel (_Attila_). She was carried off by Hartmuth, king of Norway, and as she refused to marry him, was put to the most menial work. Herwig conveyed an army into Norway, utterly defeated Hartmuth, liberated Gudrun, and married her.—_Gudrun_, a German epic of the thirteenth century.