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title: Riddle of the Philosophical Stone of Hermes and Agathodaemon
title_greek: Αἴνιγμα τοῦ φιλοσοφικοῦ λίθου Ἑρμοῦ καὶ
author: Hermes Trismegistus the Alchemist
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eul_aid: qbi
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/hermes-trismegistus-philosophical-stone-qbi-aa"
period: Roman
dialect: Koine
domain: Science
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
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# Riddle of the Philosophical Stone of Hermes and Agathodaemon

*Αἴνιγμα τοῦ φιλοσοφικοῦ λίθου Ἑρμοῦ καὶ*

**Author:** Hermes Trismegistus the Alchemist

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## Text

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ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΟΥ ΛΙΘΟΥ ΕΡΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΓΑΘΟΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣ Ἐννέα γράμματ’ ἔχω· τετρασύλλαβός εἰμι· νόει με· αἱ τρεῖς [γὰρ] αἱ πρῶται δύο γράμματ’ ἔχουσιν ἑκάστη· ἡ λοιπὴ δὲ τὰ λοιπά· καὶ εἰσὶν ἄφωνα τὰ πέντε, τοῦ παντὸς δ’ ἀριθμοῦ ἑκατοντάδες εἰσὶ δὶς ὀκτὼ, καὶ τρεῖς, τρισδεκάδες καὶ τέσσαρες· γνοὺς δὲ τίς εἰμι, οὐκ ἀμύητος ἔσῃ θείης παρ’ ἐμοίγε σοφίης.

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