Note 1023 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS

She was a courtezan at Hypselis in the Thebaid according to Epiphanius, Haer. LXVI. c. 11, p. 400, Oehler. As Baur, Die Manichäische Religionssystem, Tübingen, 1831, p. 468 sqq. has pointed out, this is probably an imitation of the story told about Simon Magus and his Helena (see Chap. VI supra). It seems to have arisen as an embroidery, quite in Epiphanius’ manner, upon the story in the Acta, that Scythianus married a captive from the Upper Thebaid (Hegemonius, op. cit. c. LXII. p. 90, Beeson).