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Herminius Mons

τὸ ὄρος Ἑρμίνιον

Herminius Mons (τὸ ὄρος Ἑρμίνιον: Sierra de la Estrella), a mountain range of Lusitania, S. of the river Durius (Douro), a position of some importance in Caesar's campaign in Lusitania. (D. C. 37.52; Hirt. Bell. Alex. 48; Suet. Jul. 54.) In the middle ages it was still called Hermeno and Arminna (Resendius, Antiq. Lusit. p. 58; Link, Reise durch Portugall, vol. ii. p. 142; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xiii. p. 166; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 277).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.