River-god of Lydia, born to Oceanus and Tethys — the eddying stream beside the Gygaean lake where Homer sets the birth of a Trojan ally, and one of the great brotherhood of Potamoi in Hesiod's first genealogy of waters.1
Hesiod names Hermus among the eddying rivers Tethys bore to Ocean — in one breath with holy Simois, Peneus, and great Sangarius in the catalogue of the world's streams.2
Homer places a Trojan warrior's origin on the Lydian water: Asius son of Hyrtacus vaunts that his birth was by the Gygaean lake, where is the demesne of his fathers, even by Hyllus that teems with fish, and eddying Hermus — before Achilles' spear ends him in the forefront of battle.3
Hyginus counts Hermus among the Rivers born of Oceanus and Tethys in his genealogical preface — the Lydian stream set in the same divine brood as Strymon, Inachus, and Alpheus.4
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