Refutation of All Heresies 4.16.1

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 appearance of those born under Taurus.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 82

Οἱ δὲ ἐν Ταύρῳ τύπῳ ἔσονται τῷδε· κεφαλῇ στρογγύλῃ, τριχὶ παχείᾳ, μετώπῳ πλατεῖ, τετραγώνῳ, ὀφθαλμοῖς καὶ ὀφρύσι μεγάλαις, μέλασιν, ἐν τῷ λευκῷ φλέβες λεπταί, αἱματώδεις, βλεφάροις μακροῖς, παχέσιν, ὠτίοις μεγάλοις, στόμασι στρογγύλοις, ῥώθωνι παχεῖ, μυκτῆρσι στρογγύλοις, χείλεσι παχέσι· τοῖς ὑπεράνω μέρεσιν ἰσχύουσιν, ὀρθὸς γεγενημένος ἀπὸ σκελῶν·

English · Claude translation

Those in the Bull will be of this type: round head, thick hair, broad, square forehead, large black eyes and eyebrows, thin bloodshot veins in the white of the eye, long thick eyelids, large ears, round mouths, thick nose, round nostrils, thick lips; they are strong in the upper parts, and upright from the legs.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 82 · 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. 4.16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/16/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/16/1/).