Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ The origin, then, from which Plato derived his theory in the Timæus, is (the) wisdom of the Egyptians. [1] For from this source, by some ancient and prophetical tradition, Solon [2] taught his entire system concerning the generation and destruction of the world, as Plato says, to the Greeks, who were (in knowledge) young children, and were acquainted with no theological doctrine of greater antiquity. ”
