Note 174 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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See n. 1, p. 45, supra. So Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 9, p. 178, Cruice, when speaking of the Ophites frequenting the mysteries of the Magna Mater, says that there is no temple anywhere [he means in Phrygia] without a serpent. See Ramsay, Cities, etc., I. pp. 51, 87. As King, Gnostics and their Remains, p. 225, noted, all the principal cities of Asia Minor, Ephesus, Apamea and Pergamum depicted serpents on their coins. For the story of Alexander’s birth, see Budge, Alexander the Great (Pseudo-Callisthenes), p. 8.