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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[196] Some propose δόξης, “opinion.” Hippolytus, however, used the word ῥίζης (translated “school”) in a similar way at the end of chap. i. of book iv. “Novelty” is read instead of “knavery;” and for ἀναπλέου, “full,” is proposed (1) ἀναπλέοντας, (a) ἀναπτεροῦντας.
[197] The subject of the numerical system employed by the Gnostics, and their occult mysteries, is treated of by the learned Kircher, Œdipi Ægypt., tom. ii. part i., de Cabalâ Hebræorum; also in his Arithmolog. in the book De Arithmomantia Gnosticor., cap. viii., de Cabalâ Pythagoreâ. See also Mersennes, Comment. on Genes.
[198] This subject is examined by Cornelius Agrippa in his celebrated work, De vanitate et incertitudine Scientiarum, chap. xi., De Sorte Pythagoricâ. Terentius Maurus has also a versified work on Letters and Syllables and Metres, in which he alludes to similar interpretations educible from the names Hector and Patroclus.
[199] That is, the division by nine.
[200] That is, calculated according to the rule of a division by seven.
[201] We should expect rather five instead of 9, if the division be by nine.
[202] There is some confusion in the text. Miller conjectures that the reading should be: “As, for instance, the name Patroclus has the letter o occurring twice in it, they therefore take it into calculation once.” Schneidewin suggests that the form of the name may be Papatroclus.
[203] Miller says there is an error in the calculation here.
[204] This is as near the sense of the passage as a translation in some respects conjectural can make it.
[205] The word θέλειν occurs in this sentence, but is obviously superfluous.
[206] In the margin of the ms. is the note, “Opinion of the Metopiscopists.”
[207] These words are out of place. See next note.
[208] There is evidently some displacement of words here. Miller and Schneidewin suggest: “There are some who ascribe to the influence of the stars the natures of men: since, in computing the births of individuals, they thus express themselves as if they were moulding the species of men.” The Abbe Cruice would leave the text as it is, altering only τυποῦντες ἰδέας into τύπων τε ἰδέας.
[209] Literally, “jumping;” others read “blackish,” or “expressive” (literally, “talking”). The vulgar reading, ὑπὸ ἄλλοις, is evidently untenable.
[210] Or “cowardly,” or “cowards at heart;” or some read, χαροποιοὶ, i.e., “causative of gladness.”
[211] Or, “diseased with unnatural lust,” i.e., νοσοῦντες for νοοῦντες.
[212] Or, κατ᾽ ἔπος, “verbally rejecting anything.”
Chapter XVI.—Type of Those Born Under Taurus.
[213] Or better, “weak in the limbs.”
[214] Or, “short.”
Chapter XVII.—Type of Those Born Under Gemini.
[215] Or, “parts.”
[216] Some read καλῶ γεγεννημένων, or καλῶ τετεννημένων.
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