Refutatio Omnium Haeresium (= Philosophumena)
Hippolytus
Hippolytus. Hippolytus Werke, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Leipizg: Hinrichs, 1916.
εἶναι δὲ τῶν κόσμων ἄνισα τὰ διαστήματα, καὶ τῇ μὲν πλείους, τῇ δὲ ἐλάττους, καὶ τοὺς μὲν αὔξεσθαι, τοὺς δὲ ἀκμάξειν, τοὺς δὲ φθίνειν, καὶ τῇ μὲν γίνεσθαι, τῇ δ’ ἐ<κ>λέπειν. λείπειν. φθείρεσθαι δὲ αὐτοὺς ὑπ' ἀλλήλων εἶναι δὲ ἐνίους κόσμους ἐρήμους ζᾠων καὶ φυτῶν καὶ παντὸς ὑγροῦ.