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Hippolytus · Book IV · Chapter XVI

Type of Those Born Under Taurus

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Those, however, who are born in Taurus will be of the following description: round head, thick hair, broad forehead, square eyes, and large black eyebrows; in a white man, thin veins, sanguine, long eyelids, coarse huge ears, round mouths, thick nose, round nostrils, thick lips, strong in the upper parts, formed straight from the legs.213 The same are by nature pleasing, reflective, of a goodly disposition, devout, just, uncouth, complaisant, labourers from twelve years, quarrelsome, dull. The stomach of these is small, they are quickly filled, forming many designs, prudent, niggardly towards themselves, liberal towards others, beneficent, of a slow214 body: they are partly sorrowful, heedless as regards friendship, useful on account of mind, unfortunate.

Notes

  1. 213

    Or better, "weak in the limbs."

  2. 214

    Or, "short."

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.