chapter II

(pp. 136ff.), “Jüdisch-orphisch-gnostiche Kulte und die Zauberbücher”; and G. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, 1829, 2 vols.

[1289] Steinschneider (1906), 24. He mentions the dissertation of R. Pietschmann, _Hermes Trismegistus_, Leipzig, 1875.

[1290] See Galen, citing Pamphilus, Kühn, XI, 798.

[1291] XXI, 14, 15.

[1292] VI, 4.

[1293] I, 1; VIII, 1-4.

[1294] VIII, 1.

[1295] VIII, 2.

[1296] VIII, 4.

[1297] I, 1.

[1298] R. Reitzenstein, _Poimandres_, Leipzig, 1904, p. 319. This work is the fullest scientific treatment of the subject.

[1299] Citations supporting this and the preceding sentences may be found in Kroll’s article on Hermes Trismegistus in Pauly-Wissowa, 809-820. The _Poimandres_ was translated into English by John Everard, D.D., a mystic but also a popular preacher whose outspoken sermons caused his frequent arrest and imprisonment during the reigns of James I and Charles I. James is reported to have said of him, “What is this Dr. Ever-out? His name shall be Dr. Never-out,” (_Dict. Nat. Biog._). Dr. Everard’s translation was printed in 1650 and again in 1657 when the “Asclepius” was added to it. In 1884 it appeared again in the Bath Occult Reprint Series with an introduction by Hargrave Jennings, and the second volume in the same series was Hermes’ _The Virgin of the World_, published at London. Kroll mentions only the more recent translation by Mead, _Thrice Greatest Hermes_. London, 1906.

[1300] Consult the bibliography in Kroll’s article in Pauly-Wissowa.

[1301] See the various volumes of _Catalogus codicum astrologorum Graecorum_, _passim_.

[1302] Unprinted.

[1303] An English translation by John Harvey was printed in London, 1657, 12mo. It also exists in manuscript form in the British Museum; Sloane 1734, fols. 283-98, “The learned work of Hermes Trismegistus intituled hys Phisicke Mathematycke or Mathematicall Physickes, direct to Hammon Kinge of Egypte.”

[1304] _Orphica_, ed. Abel (1885), p. 141.

[1305] It was to a work on this last subject that Pamphilus, cited by Galen, referred in mentioning the herb ἀετοῦ, but this plant is not named in the extant treatise on the decans. Such treatises are more or less addressed to Asclepius: printed in J. B. Pitra, _Analecta Sacra_, V, ii, 279-90; _Cat. cod. astrol. Graec._, IV, 134; VI, 83; VII, 231; VIII, ii, 159; VIII, iii, 151; and by Ruelle, _Rev. Phil._, XXXII, 247.

[1306] Berthelot (1885), pp. 133-6, and his article on Hermes Trismegistus in _La Grande Encyclopédie_; also Kroll on Hermes in Pauly-Wissowa, 799.

[1307] Berthelot (1885), p. 134.

[1308] Bouché-Leclercq, _L’Astrologie grecque_, 1899, pp. xi, 519-20, 563-4.

[1309] NH, II, 21; VII, 50.

[1310] Kühn, XII, 207.

[1311] They have been collected and edited by E. Riess, _Nechepsonis et Petosiridis fragmenta magica_, in _Philologus_, Supplbd. VI, Göttingen (1891-93), pp. 323-394. See also F. Boll, _Die Erforschung der antiken Astrologie_, in _Neue Jahrb. für das klass. Altert._, XI (1908), p. 106, and his dissertation of the same title published at Bonn, 1890. I have found that Riess, while including some of the passages attributed to Nechepso by the sixth century medical writer, Aetius, seems to have overlooked the “Emplastrum Nechepsonis e cupresso,” Aetius, _Tetrabibl._, IV, Sermo III, cap. 19 (p. 771 in the edition of Stephanus, 1567).

[1312] Bouché-Leclercq, _L’Astrologie grecque_, 1898, p. xiii. Axt and Riegler, _Manethonis Apotelesmaticorum libri sex_, Cologne, 1832. Also edited by Koechly.

[1313] E. Riess, On Ancient Superstition, in _Transactions American Philological Association_ (1895), XXVI, 40-55. Grenfell (1921), p. 151, announces that J. G. Smyly is about to publish “a remarkable fragment of an Orphic ritual” among some thirty papyrus texts in the _Cunningham Memoirs of the Royal Irish Academy_.

[1314] The Greek text of the Lithica is contained in _Orphica_, ed. E. Abel, Lipsiae et Pragae, 1885. A rather too free English verse translation, _Orpheus on Gems_, is given in C. W. King, _The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems and of Precious Metals_, London, 1865.

[1315] Pp. 397-98.

[1316] Line 94, περίφρονι Θειοδάμαντι; line 165, δαιμόνιος φώς.

[1317] Lines 410-411.

[1318] _Confessio S. Cypriani_, in _Acta Sanctorum_, ed. Bollandists, Sept., VII, 222; L. Preller, _Philologus_ (1846), I, 349ff.; cited by A. B. Cook, _Zeus_, Cambridge, 1914, I, 110-111. The work is treated more fully below in Chapter 18 .

[1319] Franz Cumont, _op. cit._, Chicago, 1911, p. 189. See also Windischmann, _Zoroastrische Studien_, Berlin, 1863.

[1320] See below,