. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Diodor-us, who is thought to have been the Author o£thofc Books oi a¥igvptian Wildom which bear his Name. Thefecond was his Great Nephew, the Son and Secretary of Ofiris, whois the y^nutis of , and was Coremporary with Efch-cheleph^or JFfculafitts., the Son of Apollo, calld by him Afclepias in hisDialogue of that Name, he being the Perlon to whom we owe the7~ranl]ation, and, in fome Things, Interpolation of the Elder//(frwfjsWorks, if they are his, and not much more ancient: Some afcribetlie Foundation of em t
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Diodor-us, who is thought to have been the Author o£thofc Books oi a¥igvptian Wildom which bear his Name. Thefecond was his Great Nephew, the Son and Secretary of Ofiris, whois the y^nutis of , and was Coremporary with Efch-cheleph^or JFfculafitts., the Son of Apollo, calld by him Afclepias in hisDialogue of that Name, he being the Perlon to whom we owe the7~ranl]ation, and, in fome Things, Interpolation of the Elder//(frwfjsWorks, if they are his, and not much more ancient: Some afcribetlie Foundation of em to Cham, fome to Mifri, fome to Abraham^who we know firft taught the Elements of Learning to the EgyptianNation, and others to Mofes, wih whom in many Things theyfurprizingly agree, and who by Artaban is faid to have been namedMercury, or Hermes, by the JEgyptians. But lamblicus lays, theyare the Collections of the Priefts from thegreateft Antiquity, under theName of Thyoth, or Caput omnium, renderd by the GreeksHermes, from their icterpreting or revealing Divine
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