Ἑρμῶν Ἑρμοὶ
of hermai, of hermae, of herms
Translated by Andrea Consogno11 Jul 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
There were Herms, of stone, in the city of Athens, in the entryways and in the shrines:1 they say that because Hermes is guardian of reason and truth, for this reason they gave to the statues a rectangular or cubic form, hinting that such a form, on whichever side it should fall, is stable and upright on every side. So, both reason and truth are similar themselves on every side, whereas falsity is manifold and divided and extremely discordant with itself.2