[67] Metamorphoses, book i., fable 10, line 651 f.
[68] Herodotus, book vii., section 54, page 431, N. Y., 1848.
[69] Satire vii., lines 520-30, page 59, Evans’ translation, Bohn, London, 1852.
[70] The Cabiri, “punishers of the ancient mythology, performing their former duties under the new dispensation.”
[71] The Gnostics and Their Remains, pp. 141 ff.
[72] Ibid., p. 6.
[73] Ibid., p. 154.
[74] Ibid., pp. 329, 330.
[75] The Gnostics and Their Remains, p. 224.
The references to Hippolytus, made by King may be found in vol. vi., Ante-Nicene Library, Edinburgh, 1877, pp. 126-194, especially 150, 151. One should read the fifth book of his “Refutation of All Heresies” to see how much water, as a divine agency and power, entered into various phases of the gnostic system. The original of the quotations from the gnostic gospel, Pistis-Sophia, may be found in the London edition—Latin—of 1856.