The Greeks called him Hermes Trismegistus, i.e.threefold or "very great" which was, in fact, in imitation of the Egyptians, whose name Toth or Techud signified twofold, in the same way "very great"] "Who is master," asked Nebsecht, "excepting God?
I can do nothing, nothing at all, and guide my instruments with hardly more certainty than a sculptor condemned to work in the dark." "Something like the blind Resu then," said Pentaur smiling, "who understood painting better than all the painters who could see." "In my operations there is a 'better' and a 'worse;'" said Nebsecht, "but there is nothing 'good.'" "Then we must be satisfied with the 'better,' and I have come to claim it," said Pentaur.
"Are you ill ?" "Isis be praised, I feel so well that I could uproot a palm-tree, but I would ask you to visit a sick girl.

The princess Bent-Anat--" "The royal family has its own physicians." "Let me speak! the princess Bent-Anat has run over a young girl, and the poor child is seriously hurt." "Indeed," said the student reflectively.

"Is she over there in the city, or here in the Necropolis ?" "Here.

She is in fact the daughter of a paraschites." "Of a paraschites ?" exclaimed Nebsecht, once more slipping the rabbit under the table, "then I will go." "You curious fellow.

I believe you expect to find something strange among the unclean folk." "That is my affair; but I will go.