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Crown the emperor with victory, award peace to the world, receive the sweat of those who have gathered, receive the city supplicating you; it has sent to you an embassy of every age.

Old men and youths, we fall down before your tomb; virgins and young men, we embrace your body; infants, like sparrows, gaze at you with open mouths; do not overlook such a spectacle; do not send our labors away empty; give us a worthy reward for our sweat. We ask nothing great of you; what you have, we ask; what you give, we seek; what you wish to see, we desire: the barbarian defeated, Arius driven out, the Emperor crowned, the world converted, Christ exalted, and hearing from the whole world together, My Lord and my God; to whom is the glory, honor, and power unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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στεφάνωσον τὸν βασιλέα τῇ νίκῃ, βράβευσον εἰρήνην τῷ κόσμῳ, δέξαι τοὺς ἱδρῶτας τῶν συνελθόντων, δέξαι τὴν πόλιν ἱκετεύουσάν σοι· τὴν κοινὴν πᾶσαν ἡλικίαν ἀπέστειλέ σοι πρεσβείαν.

Γέροντες καὶ νέοι προσπίπτομέν σου τῷ τάφῳ· παρθένοι καὶ νεανίσκοι περιπλεκόμεθά σου τῷ σώματι· νήπια στρουθίων δίκην ἀτενίζουσι πρὸς σὲ κεχηνότα· μὴ παρίδῃς σχῆμα τοιοῦτον· μὴ κενοὺς ἡμῶν ἀποπέμψῃς τοὺς πόνους· δὸς ἡμῖν ἄξιον μισθὸν τῶν ἱδρώτων. Οὐδὲν ἀπαιτοῦμέν σε μέγα· ἅπερ ἔχεις, αἰτοῦμεν· ἃ δίδως, ζητοῦμεν· ἃ θέλεις ἰδεῖν, ἐπιθυμοῦμεν· τὸν βάρβαρον ἡττηθέντα, τὸν Ἄρειον ἐλαθέντα, τὸν Βασιλέα στεφανωθέντα, τὸν κόσμον ἐπιστραφέντα, τὸν Χριστὸν ὑψωθέντα, καὶ παρὰ πάσης ὁμοῦ τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀκούοντα, Ὁ Κύριός μου καὶ ὁ Θεός μου· ᾧ ἡ δόξα, τιμὴ, καὶ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.