[84] II, p. 102.
[85] II, p. 109.
[86] See Forerunners, I, lxi ff.
[87] This applies to the chief Peratic author quoted. The long catalogue connecting personages in the Greek mythology with particular stars is, as is said later, by another hand, and is introduced by a bombastic utterance like that attributed to Simon Magus.
[88] Hippolytus attributes it to the Orphics; but see de Faye for another explanation.
[89] Forerunners, II, 49.
[90] Justinus is left out of the account because he does not seem to have been an Ophite at all. The Serpent in his system is entirely evil, and therefore not an object of worship, and his sect is probably much later than the other three in the same book.
[91] Acts of Paul and Thekla, passim.