Hippolytus

“ What the opinion of Basilides is, and that, being struck with the doctrines of Aristotle, he out of these framed his heresy. [1]
And what are the statements of Saturnilus, [2] who flourished much about the time of Basilides.
And how Menander advanced the assertion that the world was made by angels.
What is the folly of Marcion, and that his tenet is not new, nor (taken) out of the Holy Scriptures, but that he obtains it from Empedocles. ”

“ And Apelles also, having become a disciple of this (heretic) , was not in the habit of advancing the same opinions with his preceptor; but being actuated (in the formation of his system) from the tenets of natural philosophers, assumed the substance of the universe as the fundamental principle of things. ”