Note 58 — LETTER XXX.
Joanna B. Horner translation
Apuleii Asclepius sive dialogus Hermetis Trismegisti, c. 24.—(“Oh Egypt! Egypt! fables alone of thy religion will survive, equally incomprehensible to thy descendants; and words cut into stone will alone remain telling of thy pious deeds, and the Scythian, or one from the Indus, or some such neighbouring barbarian, will inhabit Egypt.”)—Tr.