Justin, who was himself a 2nd-century native of Samaria, wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis. According to Josephus, Gitta (also spelled Getta) was settled by the tribe of Dan. Irenaeus held him as being the founder of the sect of the Simonians. Hippolytus quotes from a work he attributes to Simon or his followers the Simonians, "Apophasis Megale", or "Great Declaration". According to the early church heresiologists, Simon is also supposed to have written several lost treatises, two of which bear the titles "The Four Quarters of the World" and "The Sermons of the Refuter".