Note 140 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Clem. Alex. Protrept. c. II.; Arnobius, op. cit. Bk VI. c. 21, calls it “the well-known senarian verse of a poet of Tarentum,” and connects it with the Sabazian rites, whence it probably found its way to Eleusis.