GRAIN MERCHANT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Grain merchant

... done. Thus he was called "Hermes Protector of the Merchant" (Empolaios) and in this capacity went into the colonies of Greece, including those of Southern Italy. Thus Hermes travelled with the grain merchant from Cumae and became known to the Romans. They however knew him merely as the god of trade, and their name for him is nothing but the translation into Latin of his Greek cult-title: Empolaios Mercurius. For a long ...

— The Religion of Numa - And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome • Jesse Benedict Carter