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Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies IV.24: Type of Those Born Under Capricorn

Photograph by Fiat 500e (Wikimedia Commons), Statues of Saint Hippolytus, 2025-01-27 16:39:51 · CC BY 4.0Photograph by Fiat 500e (Wikimedia Commons), Statues of Saint Hippolytus, 2025-01-27 16:39:51

SectionHippolytus of RomePublic domainBook IV

Those born in Capricorn will be of the following description: reddish body, projection of greyish hair, round mouth, eyes as of an eagle, contracted brows, open forehead, somewhat bald, in the upper parts of the body endued with more strength. The same by nature are philosophic, scorners, and scoffers at the existing state of things, passionate, persons that can make concessions, honourable, beneficent, lovers of the practice of music, passionate in their cups, mirthful, familiar, talkative, given to unnatural lusts, genial, amiable, quarrelsome lovers, for fellowship well disposed.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1886), public domain (Public domain).

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