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Astronomically speaking, the Romans were wrong about the winter solstice, for it does not actually occur on December 25, but it is important to note that Hippolytus and his contemporaries believed this date was correct.
3. Further discussion about Hippolytus and the date of Jesus’s birth can be found in T.C. Schmidt, “Calculating December 25 as the Birth of Jesus in Hippolytus’ Canon and Chronicon,” Vigiliae Christianae 69.5 (2015), pp. 542–563; T.C. Schmidt, trans., Hippolytus of Rome’s Commentary on Daniel (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022).