Note 410 — Chapter VI · SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS.
Reading edition
Polano, Selections from the Talmud, pp. 174, 176.—Augustin. de Trinitate Lib. III. c. 8, 9.—Targum of Palestine on Exod. i.; vii. 11; Numb. xxii. 22.—Fabricii Cod. Pseudepig. Vet. Testam. I. 813; II. 106.—Chron. Samaritan, xli., xliii.
Curiously enough, the fame as magicians of Moses and of his opponents was preserved together. Pliny (N. H. XXX. 2) attributes the founding of what he calls the second school of magic to “Moses and Jannes and Lotapes.”