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Hermes Trismegistus is a clumsy translation of Egyptian "Thoth the very great"; when so named, Thoth is the reputed author of the philosophico-religious treatises known collectively as Hermetica, also of sundry works on astrology, magic, and alchemy; these are invariably late [and are] Egyptian [only] in the sense of being produced in Egypt by men of Greek speech. Cf. Oxford classical dict. (2nd ed.)

The ancient Greeks identified their god Hermes with the Egyptian Thoth and gave him the epithet Trismegistus or "Thrice-Greatest"; a vast literature in Greek was [incorrectly] ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (between 20,000 and 36, 525 works); the so-called Corpus Hermeticum is the best known; most of its 17 or 18 works were probably written in the 2nd cent. Cf. Dict. of scientific biog.

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