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Refutatio Omnium Haeresium

Book IV, Chapter 24

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St. Hippolytus of Rome (traditional attribution)

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.

Trans. J. H. MacMahon, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume V, 1886. Public domain.

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