# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 22.1-2

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, 22.1 to 22.2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/22.1

Ἐπίκουρος δὲ σχεδὸν ἐναντίαν πᾶσι δόξαν ἔθετο. ἀρχὰς μὲν τῶν ὄλων ὐπέθετο ἀτόμους καὶ κενόν, κενὸν μὲν οἷον τόπον τῶν - ἐσομένων, ἀτόμους δὲ τὴν ὕλην, ἐξ ἧς τὰ πάντα. ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἀτόμων συνελθουσῶν γενέσθαι καὶ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὰ στοιχεῖα καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς πάντα καὶ ζῷα καὶ ἄλλα, ὡς μηδὲν μήτε γίνεσθαι μήτε συνεστάναι, εἰ μὴ ἐκ τῶν ἀτόμων εἴη. τὰς δὲ ἀτόμους τὰ λεπτομερέστατα σώμαθ᾿, ὧν οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο κέντρον οὐδὲ σημεῖον οὐδὲν οὐδὲ διαίρεσις οὐδεμία, ἴφη εἶναι διὸ καὶ ἀτόμους αὐτὰς ὠνόμασεν.

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Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ed. Paul Wendland. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2115.tlg060.local001/.