Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ Chapter XIII.—Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.One Ecphantus, a native of Syracuse, affirmed that it is not possible to attain a true knowledge of things. He defines, however, as he thinks, primary bodies to be indivisible, [1] and that there are three variations of these, viz., bulk, figure, capacity, from which are generated the objects of sense. But that there is a determinable multitude of these, and that this is infinite. [2] And that bodies are moved neither by weight nor by impact, but by divine power, which he calls mind and soul ”
