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Works Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) The Refutation of All Heresies
Book IV.

Chapter XIX.--Type of Those Born Under Leo.

Those born in Leo are of the following description: round head, reddish hair, huge wrinkled forehead, coarse ears, large development of neck, partly bald, red complexion, grey eyes, large jaws, coarse mouth, gross in the upper parts, 1 huge breast, the under limbs tapering. The same are by nature persons who allow nothing to interfere with their own decision, pleasing themselves, irascible, passionate, scorners, obstinate, forming no design, not loquacious, 2 indolent, making an improper use of leisure, familiar, 3 wholly abandoned to pleasures of women, adulterers, immodest, in faith untrue, importunate, daring, penurious, spoliators, remarkable; as regards fellowship, useful; as regards friendship, 4 useless.


  1. Or, "having the upper parts larger than the lower." ↩

  2. Some read analoi. ↩

  3. Schneidewin conjectures asunetheis, i.e., inexperienced. ↩

  4. Or, "succour." ↩

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