Refutation of All Heresies 4.48.11

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 120

Ἐντεῦθεν, φασίν, ὁ Ἄρατος περὶ τῆς τοῦ Κυνὸς ἀνατολῆς λέγων εἴρηκεν οὕτως· Κυνὸς δὲ ἀνατείλαντος οὐκέτι φυταλιαὶ ἐψεύσαντο. Τοῦτο ἐστὶν ὃ λέγει· τὰ φυτευόμενα φυτὰ εἰς τὴν γῆν μέχρι τῆς τοῦ Κυνὸς ἀνατολῆς πολλάκις μὴ ῥιζοβολήσαντα ὅμως τέθηλε φύλλοις, καὶ ἐνδείκνυται τοῖς βλέπουσιν ὅτι ἔσται τελεσφόρα καὶ φαίνεται ζῶντα, οὐκ ἔχοντα ζωὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ῥίζης ἐν αὐτοῖς·

English · Claude translation

Hence, they say, Aratus, speaking of the rising of the Dog Star, said thus: "When the Dog has risen, the plantings no longer deceive." This is what he means: plants planted in the ground up to the rising of the Dog Star, though often they have not taken root, nevertheless flourish with leaves and show the onlookers that they will bear fruit, and seem alive, though they have no life from the root in them;

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 120 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Aratus, Phaen. 332–335 (Aratus, Phaenomena) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The line is a paraphrase of Aratus, Phaenomena 332–335.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): περὶ τὴς → περὶ τῆς.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.48.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/48/11/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.48.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/48/11/).