[192] Rather the conceiver, from κύω, to conceive. γεννάω is used of the mother by Aristotle, De Gen. Animal., 3, 5, 6.
[193] λογικῆς.
[194] Reading Ιάσαδος for Cruice’s Ἰασίδαο. The text is said to have εἰς ἀΐδαο.
[195] γράμματα, elementa, Cr. But I think the allusion is to the story they contain for those who can read them.
[196] The Swan.
[197] τὰς ἰδέας.
[198] If Hippolytus’ words are here correctly transcribed, the “heretic” quoted seems to have two inconsistent ideas about the stars. One is that the constellations are types or allegories of what takes place in man’s soul; the other, that they are the patterns after which the creatures of this world were made. This last is Mithraic rather than Christian.
[199] τῆς τούτων ὑπολήψεως, ab horum cogitationibus, Cr.
[200] ἀγαπητοί. The word generally used in a sermon.
[201] This also reads like a peroration.