[95] Not Pythagoras, but Plutarch, de Exilio, § 11. He attributes it to Heraclitus.
[96] The reference seems to be to the Phaedrus, t. 1, p. 89 (Bekker).
[97] Or “practise philosophy”: but Hippolytus always uses the word with a contemptuous meaning.
[98] τὰς ἀρχάς. Evidently a mistake for τοὺς ἄρχοντας.
[99] Hippolytus in the interpretation of these sayings seems to have followed Diogenes Laertius.
[100] Ἀριθμητής.
[101] So Shu the Egyptian God of Air was figured between Earth (Seb) and Heaven (Nut).
[102] Roeper would read τὸν μέγαν ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπεργάζεται κόσμου, “completes the Great Year of the world.”
[103] Ἄθηλυς, “without female.”
[104] Σιγή, “Silence.” Cf. the Orphic cosmogony which makes Night the Mother of Heaven and Earth by Phanes the First-born, who contains within himself the seeds of all creatures (Forerunners, I, 123).