Refutation of All Heresies 1.20.7

Authorship disputed: The work names no author. Book 1 was long printed among Origen's works as the Philosophumena; after books 4–10 were found in a manuscript from Mount Athos (published 1851), it was assigned to Hippolytus, the usual view today, though some scholars ascribe it to another Roman writer of the same circle. Books 2 and 3 are lost, and book 4 lacks its beginning.

Summary: The Peripatetics were named for walking while they taught, the Stoics for the Painted Porch.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 40

Οὗτος μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ ποιούμενος τὰς διατριβὰς ἐφιλοσόφει· ὁ δὲ Ζήνων ἐν τῇ ποικίλῃ στοᾷ. Ἐκτήσαντο δὲ οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζήνωνος ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου τὸ ὄνομα, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τῆς στοᾶς Στωϊκοὶ κληθέντες· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔργου. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ περιπατοῦντες ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ ἐζήτουν, διὰ τοῦτο Περιπατητικοὶ ἐκλήθησαν. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν καὶ ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης.

English · Claude translation

He, then, taught philosophy holding his discussions in the Lyceum, and Zeno in the Painted Porch. Zeno's followers took their name from the place, being called Stoics from the stoa, the porch; Aristotle's from their practice: since they carried on their inquiries walking about in the Lyceum, they were called Peripatetics. These, then, are the views of Aristotle.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 40 · Ludwig Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, eds., S. Hippolyti episcopi et martyris Refutationis omnium haeresium librorum decem quae supersunt (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1859); section divisions from Paul Wendland, ed., Hippolytus Werke 3: Refutatio omnium haeresium, GCS 26 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1916) · Greek text: L. Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, Refutationis omnium haeresium (Göttingen, 1859), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library; section divisions from P. Wendland (GCS 26, 1916), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin); both CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Duncker–Schneidewin. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Duncker–Schneidewin; made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Its chapter numbers differ from the standard (Wendland) numbering used here.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.20.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/20/7/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.20.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/20/7/).