[126] Book iii. c. ix.
[127] For Athena Polias, C. O. Müller, Minervæ Poliadis Sacra, &c., p. 13, where he enumerates the honours paid to the priestess. For Demeter and Core, Mommsen, ‘Feste der Stadt Athen,’ 1898, p. 265, M. F. Foucart, ‘Les Grands Mystères d’Éleusis,’ Paris, 1900, p. 62. Weniger discusses priestesses in Delphi and Elis in his programmes, mentioned in Bibliography.
[128] Epiphanius ‘Haer.,’ 49. Augustine de Haeresibus, c. 27.
[129] Bonwetsch regards these statements as strictly historical, p. 168.
[130] ‘Haer.,’ 78, c. 23; 79.
[131] Probably the reading should be οἰκοῦσαι.
[132] C. 24.
[133] Carpocrates Irenæus, i. 25, 4; Cainites Iren., i. 31, 2.
[134] Marcion, Tertull. contra Marcionem, i. 29; Iren., i. c. 28.
[135] 1 Cor. vi. 9.