[Footnote 3: See Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Augustin,
(Basnage, Hist. des Eglises Reformees, tom. ii. p. 1313.)
This Gnostic practice has a singular affinity with the
private worship of Alexander Severus, (Lampridius, c. 29.
Lardner, Heathen Testimonies, vol. iii. p. 34.)]