232, 239; render effeminate, 233; not to be wholly laid aside, 234.
Old age, i. 319.
Old men may drink wine, i. 202.
Old Testament, the Greek translation of, i. 448.
Olive, the wild, ii. 372, 373.
Oracles of divination, i. 26, 27.
Orgies, the Bacchic, i. 27; derivation of the word, ibid.; full of imposture and quackery, 28; of the Corybantes, 30.
Ornamentation, the, of the body, i. 276, etc.; when permitted, 315.
Ornaments, i. 256; excessive fondness for, censured, 266; excuses for wearing, 267; the true and the false, 268, 269, 271; Aristophanes' catalogue, 269, 270; the love of, 273, etc.
Orpheus, i. 19; quoted, 30, 31, 73; ii. 248, 267, 292, 293, 294, 295.
Osiraphis, i. 54.
Osiris, i. 54.
Ox, the, and the bear dwelling together, ii. 333.
Ox, the, and the ass forbidden to be yoked together, ii. 55, 56.
Ὀψοφαγία, i. 194.
Pactolus, the, i. 82.
Pæagogus, the, a prayer to, i. 342; verses to, 346.
Pædagogy, i. 121, 125.
Παιδάριον, i. 121.
Pain and poverty, contempt for, ii. 148.
Painting the eyes, etc., condemned, i. 277.
Painting the face censured, i. 319.
Palladium, the, i. 53.
Pallas, i. 30.
Pantænus, the teacher of Clement, i. 11; referred to, 355.
Pantarkes, i. 58.
Panyasis quoted, i. 42.
Parabolic style of Scripture, the, ii. 379.
Parmenides, the Eleatic, quoted, ii. 256, 287, 300.
Passions, the, ii. 37; how called by Basilides, 64; to be subdued, 66, 67; the true Gnostic free from, 346.
Patience or endurance, ii. 60.
Peacemakers, ii. 157.
Pearls, the wearing of, i. 266, 358.
Pearls, casting, before swine, i. 388.
Penitents, ii. 156.
Pentheus, i. 389.
People, the new and the old, i. 128.
Perfection, i. 126, 131, 132; women as well as men capable of, ii. 193, etc.; consists in the knowledge and love of God, 212–215; nature adapted to, 359, etc.; the Gnostic alone attains, 362–364; steps to, 446, etc.
Perfect man, the, described, ii, 199–202; does good for the sake of the good, 202, etc.; how he treats the body and the things of the world, 215.
Peripatetics, the, i. 68.
Persian kings, the, i. 455.
Persians, the, fire-worshippers, i. 67; instructors among, 150.
Perturbations of the soul, the true Gnostic free from, ii. 344–348.
Peter, the Preaching of, quoted, i. 470; ii. 326, 379, 380.
Peter, the story of his wife's martyrdom, ii. 451, 452.
Petulantia, i. 247.
Phalloi, i. 41.
Phanothea, i. 404.
Phemonoe, i. 424.
Pherecrates, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 427.
Pherecydes quoted, i. 392; ii. 247.
Pherephatta, i. 29.
Phidias, i. 58.
Philanthropy, ii. 26.
Philanthropy, the, of our Instructor, i. 118.
Philemon, the comic poet, quoted, i. 269, 324; ii. 294, 423.
Philip of Pella, i. 59.
Philo, his interpretation of Sarah and Hagar, i. 368.
Philolaus quoted, ii. 91.
Philosopher, the, to what he applies himself, ii. 29, 30.
Philosophers, the variety of, respecting God, i. 66–68; by divine inspiration, sometimes hit on the truth, 69; objections to extracts from the writings of, answered, 360, 361; a succession of, in Greece, 391, etc.; their philosophy Hebraic, 392; the first so called, ibid.; thieves and robbers—how? 406; attained to some truth, 413, ii. 396; varieties of opinions among, respecting the chief good, 71–74.
Philosophical inquiry, its object, ii. 490.
Philosophy, i. 361; the handmaid of theology, 366; what it is, 368, 369; the eclectic, paves the way to virtue, 374; that which the apostle bids us shun, 384; all sections of,
