Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ The disciples, however, of Pythagoras, expounded this (art) after a more excellent method, [1] as our readers may ascertain by consulting those passages (of our work) in which we have previously furnished expositions of the entire wisdom of the Greeks. But since the heresy of Monoïmus has been sufficiently refuted, let us see what are the fictitious doctrines which the rest also (of these heretics) devise, in their desire to set up for themselves an empty name. ”
