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[[Image:Hermes by Praxiteles.jpg|thumb|200px|Hermes bearing the infant [[Dionysus]], by [[Praxiteles]]]]
'''Hermes''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{polytonic|ʽἙρμῆς}} [[IPA]] {{IPA|[her'me:s]}}), in [[Greek mythology]], is the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian god]] of commerce, boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of [[shepherd]]s and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, and of the cunning of thieves and liars. The [[Homeric hymn]] to Hermes invokes him as the one
:"of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods."
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