Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mercurius"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Mercurius
the Hermes (i.e., "the speaker") of the Greeks (Acts 14:12), a
heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter,
and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul
for this god because he was the "chief speaker."
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