[190] Coloss. i. 19, and ii. 9.
[191] From the starry influences?
[192] John iii. 17.
[193] 1. Cor. xi. 32.
[194] But see n. 4 on last page and text three sentences earlier.
[195] It was not the world, but the Zodiac that the astrologers divided into dodecatemories. See Bouché-Leclercq, L’Astrologie Gr., passim.
[196] There must be some mistake here. The planetary world, according to the astronomy of the time, only began at the Moon.
[197] The words which follow, down to the end of this paragraph, with the exception of one sentence, are taken, not from the astrologers, but from the opponent Sextus Empiricus. They correspond to pp. 339 ff. of the Leipzig edition of Sextus and the restorations from this are shown by round brackets. The whole passage doubtless once formed the beginning of Book IV of our text, the opening words of which they repeat. For the probable cause of this needless repetition see the Introduction, p. 20 supra.
[198] Sextus’ comment, not Hippolytus’.
[199] The personal followers of Pythagoras were called Pythagorics, those who later gave a general assent to his doctrines Pythagoreans.