About the year 200 of the Christian aera, Irenaeus and Hippolytus refuted the thirty-two sects,
which
had multiplied to fourscore in the time of Epiphanius,
(Phot. Biblioth. cod. cxx. cxxi. cxxii.) The five books of
Irenaeus exist only in barbarous Latin; but the original
might perhaps be found in some monastery of Greece.