# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 48.10

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΟΣ Δ>, Chapter 48. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/48.10

Κυνόσουρα δέ, φησίν, αὕτη ἡ Ἄρκτος, ἡ κτίσις ἡ δευτέρα, ἡ μικρά, ἡ στενὴ ὁδός, καὶ οὐχὶ ἡ Ἑλίκη. οὐ γὰρ εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἄγει, ἀλλ᾿ εἰς τὰ ἔπροσθεν ἐν εὐθείας τοὺς ἑπομένους ὁδηγεῖ, κυνὸς οὖσα. κύων γὰρ ὁ λόγος, τοῦτο μὲν φρουρῶν καὶ φυλάσσων τὸ ἐπιβουλευόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν λύκων ποίμνιον, τοῦτο δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς κτίσεως τὰ θηρία κυνηγῶν καὶ διαφθείρων, τοῦτο δὲ γεννῶν τὰ πάντα καί, ὃ δή φασι, κύων, τουτέστι γεννῶν.

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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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