Historia Dynastiarum.

Dyn. I.
who is called Trismegistus the Thrice-Greatest, meaning "the one tripled in wisdom," because he came as the third of the wise Hermeses. Portions were copied from his books; they are among the treatises that Tat included by way of a question-and-answer dialogue between them. They are not in any [systematic] order, because the original was
Trismegisti opera quæ Syriace extant The works of Trismegistus which exist in Syriac.

* In Babylonian

scattered in Babylonian. The copy is in our possession in Syriac. It is said that the first Hermes built one hundred and eighty cities, the smallest of which was Edessa. He legislated for the people the worship of God, fasting, prayer, almsgiving, and reverence for the [seven] planets through their houses and their ascendants. Likewise, whenever the new moon appeared and the sun entered one of the twelve zodiac signs, they were to offer sacrifices of the first fruits of every harvest, the best of perfumes, offerings, and wines. He forbade drunkenness and impure foods.
Hermes 1. Builds cities and other things.

Instituted laws and rites.

Seth, according to the opinion of the Sabeans; Agathodae-mon the Egyptian, Hermes' teacher.

Asclepiades (or Aesculapius), disciple of Hermes.

The Sabeans claim that Seth, son of Adam, is Agathodaemon the Egyptian, the teacher of Hermes. Asclepius the King was one of those who took wisdom from Hermes, and Hermes appointed him [governor] over a quarter of the inhabited world at that time; this is the quarter that the Greeks ruled after the Flood. When God raised Hermes to Himself, Asclepius grieved deeply, mourning for the blessing and knowledge that the earth had lost. He fashioned an image in his likeness and set it up in his temple of worship. The statue was at the peak of what could be shown of awe-inspiring majesty...