Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ For what similarity with a bear or lion, or kid, or waterman, or Cepheus, or Andromeda, or the spectres that have names given them in Hades, have the stars that are scattered over the firmament—for we must remember that these men, and the titles themselves, came into existence long after the origin of man,— (what, I say, is in common between the two) , that the heretics, astonished at the marvel, should thus strive by means of such discourses to strengthen their own opinions? ”
