Hermês Trismegis´tus

( Hermês “thrice-greatest” “thrice-greatest” ), the Egyptian Thoth, to whom is ascribed a host of inventions: as the art of writing in hieroglyphics, the first Egyptian code of laws, the art of harmony, the science of astrology, the invention of the late and lyre, magic, etc. (twentieth century B.C. ). The school of Hermês Trismegistus, Who uttered his oracles sublime Before the Olympiads. Long fellow, The Golden Legend (1851).