Refutation of All Heresies 4.8.6

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, 66

Τρεῖς μὲν γάρ εἰσιν ἐν αὐτοῖς διπλάσιοι ἀπὸ μονάδος (??), τρεῖς δὲ... (??) καὶ (??) σταδίων. Περίμετρος δὲ γῆς σταδίων (??) καὶ (??)· καὶ ἀπόστημα δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπιφανείας τῆς γῆς ἐπὶ τὸν σεληνιακὸν κύκλον ὁ μὲν Σάμιος Ἀρίσταρχος (??) ἀναγράφει σταδίων (??), ὁ δὲ Ἀπολλώνιος μυριάδ. (??), ὁ δὲ Ἀρχιμήδης μυριάδ. (??) καὶ μονάδ. (??).

English · Claude translation

For among them there are three doubles from the monad …, and three … and … stades. The circumference of the earth is … and … stades; and the distance from the surface of the earth to the circle of the moon Aristarchus of Samos records as … stades, Apollonius as … myriads, and Archimedes as … myriads and … units.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 66 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

The numbers in this passage could not be read by the digitizers (marked (??) in the digital text) and are shown as "…".

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misspelling in the digital text): Ἀπολλώνιας → Ἀπολλώνιος.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/8/6/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/8/6/).