# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 29.23

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ΒΙΒΛΟΝ Ζ, Chapter 29. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/29.23

τοῦτον εὶναί φησιν ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆς νόμον μέγιστον τῆς τοῦ παντὸς διοικήσεως, λέγων ὧδέ πως· ἔστιν ἀνάγκης χρῆμα, θεῶν ψήφισμα παλαιόν, ἀίδιον, πλατέεσσι κατεσφρηγισμένον ὅρκοις, ἀνάγκην καλῶν τὴν ἐξ ἑνὸς εἰς πολλὰ κατὰ τὸ νεῖκος καὶ ἐκ πολλῶν εἰς ἔν κατὰ τὴν φιλίαν μεταβολήν· θεοὺς δέ, ὡς ἔφην, τέσσαρας μὲν θνητούς, πῦρ, ὕδωρ, γῆν, ἀέρα, δύο δὲ ἀθανάτους, ἀγενήτους, πολεμίους ἑαυτοῖς διὰ παντός, τὸ νεῖκος καὶ τὴν φιλίαν·

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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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