Mercurius

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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."
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mercurius, an orator; an interpreter