Theater of Fate

Possevinus Possevinus, in Sacred Apparatus. observes that another manuscript codex exists in the Vatican Library.

Hannibal Rosselius published a very extensive commentary on the Poemander in two folio volumes (Cracow, 1595, folio), which is strangely inept. There are likewise others who wanted to amend these little works of Hermes, but they only collect mere scraps.

DEMO-
CRITUS
&
PYTHA-
GORAS
with their
disciples.

The most ancient among the Greeks that I have encountered is

DEMOCRITUS

of Abdera, a distinguished philosopher called wise Clement, book 6, Stromata..

Whose prudence shows
That top men, destined to provide great examples,
Can be born in a land of blockheads, under thick air. Juvenal, Satire 10, verse 50.

Since it did not escape him that an indescribable order exists in things, not from himself nor from nothing, he discoursed at length in that work on Providence which Laërtius Laërtius, in his life. attributes to him, following the opinion of the Magi and the Egyptians, to whom he had undertaken an exile rather than a pilgrimage.