||Thoth (?), n. 1.
(Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient
Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He
corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually
represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.
2. (Zoöl.) The Egyptian sacred
baboon.
||Thoth (?), n. 1.
(Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient
Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He
corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually
represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.
2. (Zoöl.) The Egyptian sacred
baboon.