# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 25.3-2

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, <ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ, Chapter 25. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/25.3-2

ταῖς δὲ ἄλλαις ἡμέραις ἐπὰν ἀποπατίσαι θέλοιεν, βόθρον ὀρύξαντες ποδιαῖον τῇ σκαλίδι — τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἐστι τὸ ἀξινάριον, ὃ τοῖς προσιοῦσι μαθητεύεσθαι πρώτως διδόασι —, καὶ περικαφιλαλήθη λύφαντες τὸ ἱμάτιον ἱζάνουσι, φάσκοντες μὴ δεῖν ὑβρίζειν τὰς αὐγάς, ἔπειτα τὴν ἀνασκαφεῖσαν γὴν ἐπεμβάλλουσιν εἰς τὸν βόθρον, καὶ τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν ἐκλε(γό)μενοι τοὺς) ἐρημοτέρους τόπους. ἐπὰν δὲ τοῦτ(ο ποιήσωσ)ιν, εὐθὺς ἀπολούονται ὡς μιαινούσης τῆς ἐκκρίσεως.

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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.
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