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Refutation of All Heresies

St Hippolytus of Rome, ANF 5

Book 4, 25. Type of Those Born Under Aquarius

Those born in Aquarius will be of the following description: square in size, of a diminutive body; sharp, small, fierce eyes; imperious, ungenial, severe, readily making acquisitions, for friendship and fellowship well disposed; moreover, for maritime¹ enterprises they make voyages, and perish. The same by nature are taciturn, modest, sociable, adulterers, penurious, practised in business,² tumultuous, pure, well-disposed, honourable, large eyebrows; frequently they are born in the midst of trifling events, but (in after life) follow a different pursuit; though they may have shown kindness to any one, still no one returns them thanks.

Notes

Literally “moist,” or “difficult;” or, the Abbe Cruice suggests, “fortuitous.”
Or, “pragmatic, mild, not violent.”