[2] If we could but trust the assertion of Origen in the next century (Against Celsus, vi, 11) that there were then no Simonians left, the presumption would be that they had been absorbed by another cult. [↑]
[3] Ovid, Fasti, vi, 213; Livy, viii, 20. [↑]
[4] Cory’s Ancient Fragments, ed. 1876, p. 92; Lenormant’s Chaldean Magic, Eng. tr., p. 131. [↑]
[5] Sanchoniathon, in Cory, as cited, p. 5. [↑]
[6] Eratosthenes’ Canon of Theban Kings, in Cory as cited, pp. 139–141. [↑]
[7] Diodorus Siculus, ii, 4. [↑]
[8] Bible Folk Lore, 1884, p. 45; cp. Steinthal on Samson, Eng. tr., with Goldziher, p. 408. [↑]