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Refutation of All Heresies 5.13.8

Hippolytus of Rome · Refutation of All Heresies · ca. 222–235 · Rome · Read in context

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: Hippolytus lists the double-bodied signs and the four turning signs where the sun marks the seasons.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 180–182

Δίσωμα δὲ εἶναι λέγουσι ζώδια [Διδύμους τε καὶ τὸν] διαμετροῦντα τούτοις Τοξότην, Παρθένον τε καὶ Ἰχθύας· οὐ δίσωμα δὲ τὰ λοιπά. Καὶ ὡσαύτως τροπικὰ μέν, ἐν οἷς γενόμενος ὁ ἥλιος μεταλλάσσει καὶ ποιεῖ τοῦ περιέχοντος τροπάς, οἷόν ἐστι ζώδιον ὅ τε Κριὸς καὶ ὁ τούτου διάμετρος, καθάπερ Ζυγός, Αἰγόκερώς τε καὶ Καρκίνος.

English · Claude translation

They say that the bicorporeal signs are [the Twins and] the Archer diametrically opposite them, the Virgin, and the Fishes; the rest are not bicorporeal. And likewise the tropic signs are those in which the sun, when it comes to be in them, turns and makes the turnings of the surrounding air: such is the sign of the Ram and the one diametrically opposite it, the Balance, and Capricorn and the Crab.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 180–182 · 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.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/8/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/8/).

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