Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume IHippolytus, Antipope
Philosophy
Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I
Hippolytus, Antipope
Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Occultism; Philosophy, Ancient
[Footnote 17: ἀπότεξις, “the bringing-forth” is the word used by Sextus
throughout. As Sextus was a medical man it is probably the technical
term corresponding to our “parturition.” Miller reads ἀποτάξις which
does not seem appropriate.]
[Footnote 18: διάθεμα. See n. on p. 67 _supra_.]
[Footnote 19: I have here followed Sextus’ division of the sentence.
Cruice translates στέαρ, _farina aqua subacta_, for which I can see no
justification. Macmahon here follows him.]
[Footnote 20: Restoring from Sextus οἴχεται for ἦρται.]
[Footnote 21: ὡροσκόπον, “the ascending sign.” So Sextus.]
[Footnote 22: Restoring from Sextus ἐφ’ ἑκάστου for ἐν ἑκάστῳ; τὸν
ἀκριβῆ for τὸ ἀκριβὲς and omitting καταλαβέσθαι.]
[Footnote 23: See n. on p. 74 _infra_.]
[Footnote 24: Sextus has described earlier (p. 342, Fabricius) the
whole process of warning the astrologer of the moment of birth by
striking a metal disc, which I have called “gong.”]
[Footnote 25: ἀορίστου τυγχανούσης.]
[Footnote 26: ἐν πλείονι χρόνῳ καὶ ἐν συχνῷ πρὸς αἴσθησιν δυνάμενον
μερίζεσθαι, _majori et longiori temporis spatio ad aurium sensum
dividatur_, Cr.; “with proportionate delay,” Macmahon. I do not
understand how either his or Cruice’s construction is arrived at.]
[Footnote 27: Sextus has “on the hills.”]
[Footnote 28: ὡροσκοποῦντος might mean “which marks the hour.”]
[Footnote 29: φαίνεται ... ἀλλοιότερον ... διάθεμα.]
[Footnote 30: _quam diligenter observari possit in coelo nativitas_,
Cr., (before) “the nativity can be carefully observed in the sky.”]
[Footnote 31: γένεσις. The word in Greek astrological works has the
same meaning as “geniture” or “nativity” in modern astrological jargon.
Identical with “theme.”]
[Footnote 32: The whole of this sentence is corrupt, and the scribe
was probably taking down something from Sextus which was read to him
without his understanding it. I have given what seems to be the sense
of the passage.]
[Footnote 33: ὑδρίαι, Sextus (p. 342, Fabr.), has described the
clepsydra or water-clock and its defects as a measurer of time.]
[Footnote 34: ἐν πλάτει.]
[Footnote 35: τὰ ἀποτελέσματα. A technical expression for the results
or influence on sublunary things of the position of the heavenly
bodies. Cf. Bouché-Leclercq, _op. cit._, p. 328, n. 1.]
[Footnote 36: Sextus adds παγίως, “positively.”]
[Footnote 37: οἱ μαθηματικοί. The only passage in our text where
Hippolytus uses the word in this sense. He seems to have taken it from
Sextus’ title κατὰ τὸν μαθηματικὸν λόγον.]
[Footnote 38: A play of words upon Λέω and ἀνδρεῖος.]
[Footnote 39: σπουδῆς. Hippolytus inserts an unnecessary οὐ before the
word. See Sextus, p. 355.]
[Footnote 40: οἰκειώσεως χάριν, _gratia consuetudinis_, Cr.]
[Footnote 41: Does this refer to Otho’s encouragement by the astrologer
Ptolemy to rebel against Galba? See Tacitus, _Hist._, I, 22. The
sentence does not appear in Sextus.]
[Footnote 42: Sextus says 9977 years.]
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