Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ For man is an animal deriving the principle (of existence) from that animality, and horse is an animal deriving the principle of existence from that animality. The horse, and ox, and dog, and each of the rest of the animals, derive the principle (of existence) from the absolute animal, while animality itself is not any of these. ”
