[290] παραπλάσει, “given it another form.” As a fact, Justinus’ quotation from Herodotus is singularly accurate, save as afterwards noted.
[291] Herodotus, IV, 8-10.
[292] An island near Cadiz. The codex has Ἐρυθρᾶς, “the Red Sea.”
[293] In Herodotus it is mares and a chariot.
[294] μιξοπάρθενος. A neologism.
[295] In Herodotus the prophecy is given by the girl.
[296] To explain the origin of the Scythian nation.
[297] Or perhaps, as above, “the things of the universe.”
[298] Supplied from the summary in Book X. So the Pistis Sophia has a Power never otherwise described but not benevolent who is called “the great unseen Forefather,” and seems to rule over material things.
[299] There is nothing to show that Hippolytus or Justinus knew this to be a plural.