See article on “Hermes” in _La Grande Encyclopédie_ by Berthelot who has made an extended study of the history of alchemy; and who, in his _La Chimie au Moyen Age_ holds that Greek alchemistic treatises were continuously extant in Italy during the Dark Ages—a circumstance which diminishes the importance of Arabian influence on the study of the hermetic art in the later Middle Ages. Footnote 190: See Anthon’s _Classical Dictionary_, 1855 (no adequate account of Hermes Trismegistus exists in any of the more recent classical dictionaries). Footnote 191: The _Poemander_ (or _Pymander_) has been reproduced in the Bath _Occult Reprint Series_ (London, 1884) from the translation “from the Arabic by Dr. Everard, 1650.” It has an introduction by Hargrave Jennings, “author of the Rosicrucians,” giving some account of Hermes Trismegistus. Vol. ii in the same Bath _Occult Reprint Series_—which seems to have been instituted on behalf of “students of the occult sciences, searchers after truth and Theosophists”—is Hermes’ _Virgin of the World_. Besides Berthelot’s article, an account of Hermes may be found in pages 181–190 of _The Literary Remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch_ (London, 1879). There is a French translation of the _Poemander_ by Menard with an introductory essay which, however, Deutsch characterized as “deplorably shallow.” Footnote 192: J. B. Bury, _Later Roman Empire_ (N. Y., 1899), vol. i, p. 208. Footnote 193: _De Divinatione_, bk. i, ch. 58. “Haec habui, inquit, de divinatione quae dicerem. Nunc illa testabor non me sortilegos neque eos qui quaestus causa hariolentur, ne psychomantia quidem quibus Appius amicus tuus uti solebat, agnoscere.” Footnote 194: For the arguments of Favorinus, see Aulus Gellius, _Noctes Atticae_, bk. xiv; ch. 1. (Delphin & Variorum Classics [1824] ex editione Jacobi Gronovii.) Fragments of Favorinus’s writings are also to be found in Stobæus. The edition of the _Opera_ of Sextus Empiricus which I used was that by Johannes Albertus Fabricus, (Lipsiae, 1718), giving the Greek text and a Latin translation. For Cicero’s arguments, see _De Divinatione_, bk. ii, chs. 42–47. Footnote 195: “Adversum istos qui sese chaldæos seu genethliacos appellant, ac de motu deque positu stellarum dicere posse, quae futura sunt, profitentur, audivimus quondam Favorinum philosophum Romae Graece disserentem egregia atque illustri oratione; exercendine autem, anne ostentandi gratia ingenii, an quod ita serio judicatoque existimaret, non habeo dicere.” _Noctes Atticae_, bk. xiv, ch. 1, sect. 1. A foot-note in the Delphin edition expresses preference in place of the words “exercendine autem, anne ostentendi” for the shorter reading “exercendi autem, non ostentandi”—which reading is adopted by Hertz in his edition of the year, 1885. Footnote 196: