Egyptian and Babylonian wisdom: Lactantius on the authority of Hermes Trismegistos and the Sibyls (early fourth century CE)

Ancient author: Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.6 (link; link to Latin). Comments: Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (early fourth century CE) was a rhetorician from North Africa who later relocated to engage in rhetoric in Nikomedia in Bithynia under emperor Diocletian and, at some point, may have been a tutor to one of the emperor Constantine s sons (according [ ]