[212] κωνάριον.
[213] νωτιαῖον μοελόν.
[214] It is at any rate plain from this that the missing Books II and III at one time existed.
[215] These words appear in the MS. at the foot of this Book.
BOOK V
THE OPHITE HERESIES
p. 137.1. These are the contents of the 5th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies.
2. What the Naassenes say who call themselves Gnostics, and that they profess those opinions which the philosophers of the Greeks and the transmitters of the Mysteries first laid down, starting wherefrom they have constructed heresies.
3. And what things the Peratæ imagine, and that their doctrine is not framed from the Holy Scriptures but from the astrological (art).