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country, he was King of Egypt.
4. Regarding his era, there is much controversy among those who write about this divine, ancient author as to exactly when he lived. Some say he lived after the time of Moses, giving this weak original: "slender" reason for it: namely original: "viz." (videlicet), because he was named Ter Maximus (thrice greatest). They argue that, according to Egyptian customs * François de Foix, Count of Candale original: "Franciscus Flussas," a 16th-century bishop and mathematician who translated Hermes., he was promoted from being the chief philosopher to be the head of the priesthood, and from there to be the head of the government, or King.
But if this is their only evidence original: "ground", you must excuse my disagreement with them. This is because, according to the most learned of his Geber, Paracelsus, and Heinrich Nolle in The Theory of Hermetic Philosophy*, first treatise original: "Henricus Nollius in theoria Philosophiæ Hermeticæ tractatu primo" followers, he was called Ter Maximus because he possessed perfect and exact knowledge