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90. The nineteenth said: " I am called Na6th, and I take my seat on the knees of men. If any one write on paper: ' Phnunohoeol, depart Nathath, and touch thou not the neck,' I at once retreat."

91. The twentieth said: "I am called Marderd. I send on men incurable fever. If any one write on the leaf of a book: ' Sphener, Rafael, retire, drag me not about, flay me not, and tie it round his neck,' I at once retreat."

92. The twenty-first said: "I am called Alath, and I cause coughing and hard-breathing in children. If any one write on paper: ' Eorex, do thou pursue Alath,' and fasten it round his neck, 1 at once retire . . . ' "

93. The twenty-third said: " I am called Nefthada. 1 cause the reins to ache, and I bring about dysury. If any one write on a plate of tin the words: ' lathdth, TJruel, Nephthada, and iasten it round the loins, I at once retreat."

94. The twenty-fourth said: " I am called Akton. I cause ribs and lumbic muscles to ache. If one engrave on copper material, taken from a ship which has missed its anchorage, this: ' Marmaraoth, Sabadth, pursue Akton,' and fasten it round the loin, I at once retreat."

95. The twenty-fifth said: " I am called Anatreih, and I send burnings and fevers into the entrails. But if I hear: ' Arara, Charara,' instantly do I retreat."

96. The twenty-sixth said: " I am called Enenuth. I steal away men's minds, and change their hearts, and make a man toothless (?). If one write: ' Allazool, pursue Enenuth,^ and tie the paper round him, I at once retreat."

97. The twenty-seventh said: "I am called Pheth. I make men consumptive and cause hemorrhagia. If one exorcise me in wine, sweet-smelling and unmixed by the eleventh aeon'^, and say: ' I exorcise thee by the eleventh aeon to stop, I demand, Pheth (Axidpheth),' then give it to the patient to drink, and I at once retreat."

98. The twenty-eighth said: " I am called Harpax, and I send sleeplessness on men. If one vrrite ' Kokphnedismos,' and bind it round the temples, I at once retire."

99. The twenty-ninth said: " I am called Anoster. 1 engender uterine mania and pains in the bladder. If one powder into pure oil three seeds of laurel and smear it on, saying: ' I exorcise thee, Anoster. Stop by Marmarad,' at once I retreat."

100. The thirtieth said: " I am called AUeborifh. If in eating

' There must here be a lacuna in the text.

' A Gnostic reference. Just above "eleven fathers" were mentioned.