Orationes forenses et acta
Each one of you has received benefits from him, that having set this forth here with goodwill toward him you might sway the votes, and by showing favo
Having beset it and stirred herself up to be divinely inspired and worked herself into a bacchic frenzy. now, that the many are deceived by this, i do
Of her, nor anything else of the things forbidden to me, but which are proclaimed and honored by them. for someone might perhaps excuse him for the fi
To be enumerated? for divination is for the time being sufficient. but i think, if this had happened before, he would have nobly recorded these things
Of the difference of theurgies, at the end he adds: one must remove in advance all obstacles to the visitation of the gods and impose a total tranqui
In these matters i would gladly ask of you, whether it is permitted for a priest to be initiated into such mysteries and to be deemed worthy of such r
Immediately, therefore, all blushed, or rather, indeed, they shouted with their voices and condemned the leaders of the impiety and named their writin
Has he discerned? but if indeed the part of the synod has not joined with the senate council nor with the chosen of the nazirites—for this part was no
Aristotle's theology and the psychogony of plato and the new numbers and the remodeling of doctrines and the expense of the divisible, who of all ever
What argument is left to you concerning this, or how is it that you dispute with one another over matters of such importance and postpone the decision
And i gladly admire in you the encomium of the good man in your memorandum. for where he holds on to the whole and bears the burden of common cares, y
All those, with whom we disagree, have advocated for confusions or divisions. for what do matter and ideas have in common with our doctrines? but sinc
And of the one who is lifted up and of the one seated on it. know the cherubic and seraphic wings, the perfection of their number, the symbolic coveri
They have shaken. for if they happened to be uninitiated in our doctrines and completely uninstructed in the mysteries of the spirit, perhaps, having
For he who receives a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, from the contrary and greater, he who receives an impious man will receive the punishme
He has despised all things equally, although the law, standing as it were at his ears, cried out: let no one teach or learn profane things. and agai
He both strung together and vomited up, this twenty-third writing he thinks, or rather he places it between those who were then in every way our own p
Depicting the madness of nestorian rage. i have left it to you to compare it with the dogmas of the massalians. i brought forth to them from the inner
The patriarch has acted impiously, clearly and openly. and it is not permitted for any of you who wish, nor for those zealous on his behalf, to defend
And having brought over certain forces from the west, he stirred them up for war, and they come face to face with each other from both sides. and a fi
Delaying he is persuaded and is moderate and descends with them. and he dares against two emperors, of whom the one the imperial court held, adorned w
Being torn apart. but pilate sat judging my divinely-moved emperor, the lord's anointed, who was being considered, not hesitating, not washing his han
To kill the emperor, unless he came down quickly and bowed his head to him, but he, fearing the tyrannical cruelty and cowering lest he suffer anythin
An innovative rank and would come to be below. there, then, the morning star raged against the first goodness, but here the evening star has attacked
Demonic in his life. but again i have turned to you, the judges, and again i ask: has anything been dared by this man or not? you will surely say the
Then failing to achieve their purpose, they chose to strike and kill. is it not clear to all that, while digging through and breaking into the houses
Ruin, if he should object saying that he neither urged these things nor wished them, but even punished many of those who dared with all punishments, w
In the parts on the right, somewhere near the entrance, but you have immediately ascended into heaven on earth itself, as if considering it a terrible
Disregarding the divine temples, he was destroying them? and he did not cease, piling one on top of another and making them abandoned ruins. for not o
Leaning together walls collapsed together with their icons and statues. and everything was as if in a great earthquake, the air being darkened, the e
And the remains of the apostle luke are burned by fire and reduced to dust. i fear that the bodies of martyrs also lay here. i am afraid that some of
I shall grant you this also. he had no need, it is true, of the burial robes. i admit it, since they had all already decayed. but he did have need of
Let us not even examine the scene after that, but let these things be considered by him as theaters and hunts. but where the mercy-seat is, and around
Seeing what was happening was exulting and rejoicing, like of old the whelp of the beast, i mean the one from isauria. but you consider for me what a
Fire was burning us and the zeal of the lord was consuming us, long ago the man would have perished, or rather, he would not even have had access to t
To me the macedonian, to the right the spear, at a walk the half-file leader, captain, wheel around. and nothing new nor incredible for one who has
I pray with the high priest, but the mixture and the sheath which has grown with us turns the mind, being raised aloft, back toward itself. therefore
He would trace his genealogy from cronus and rhea and from those even further back, i mean hericapaeus and phanes and that orphic night and he traced
And the same color over all, none of which moved or influenced him? but never to converse even with the more divine words nor to unroll any tablet, th
The emperor's treasury is not supplied only from mines nor from the recesses of the earth, nor do tributes alone fill it, nor contributions from land
And to speak of the audacity, or rather—but how could i speak, intertwining things?—and the diligently pursued plot, through which almost everything w
Granting that you may meet with more benevolent judges above. and then the drink of deposition here will truly appear to you as a purification. and ma
Suspicious to many. but if he has nothing in common with the one he has chosen to accuse, nor has anything come between them, it is somehow still unac
They anticipate my tongue, scattering against me the things they did wrong on account of their own greed, and i confidently awaited the court, as one
To vote against a priest on the spot the penance exceeds all punishment the examination and the penance must proceed canonically. and, as it seems,
Of the whole age, an unbeliever, so that i may speak truly, to believe against a believer? for this would be far from reason and thought. for where we
But i, but what might i say about this? he living the life of a private citizen, but i clothed in the high-priestly vestment. and such a man is agains
With misfortunes and your example, for the sake of argument, let someone come forward as a condemned man to have his neck cut. and let the sword be ha
Do you receive? for the pardon testifies that the deposition did not seem so even to himself. for if, according to you, it is like a cutting off, what
Is the cause the comparison of the matter to a beheading? for from this, one absurdity having been granted, these many nonsensical things were consequ
An evil tale about me for years, leave me to my former wounds, do not card new ones upon me. so may the lord heal you, if indeed there is anything in
This is the law of accusation and defense, and from this the precise examination of matters is found. but he introduced a new kind of writing into the
Of voice, for not even this is unworthy of the art, and with a rhythmic turn of the tongue, you perhaps might only approach him, you who indeed gaped
Has been debarred from studies? but for you in deep old age, what share is there of education? who of all people has known you, as far as i know, afte
Which they say came into being of their own accord. but these things are not acceptable to you, and for this reason we shall laugh at you again, havin
Ever, not in courts, not in counsels, not in public, not in private. for this was not even without accusation, but the speech had some defense. from w
And the nature of fire did not burn, and the steep rock sent forth springs, and the wood here sweetened the bitterness, and there lightened the heavy
Did he transcend this time? and it is likely, o best one, for christ possessed a nature more free even according to human standards. whether, then, th
From himself, having allotted a great portion of reason to his soul this man, therefore, having long ago established for himself a little adopted dau
A contest, but more brilliant was the victory of elpidius, and he went away having overcome the vestarches by all votes and crowning himself with the
Receiving. when the most compassionate soul heard this supplication, since she also knew the circumstances concerning the bestarches, and that for man
I will let my tongue go from forbidden deeds. and first i shame myself relating unspeakable and improper things, since i will also become a stumbling
The amounts owed will be reckoned against each other, and the fine will be reckoned to elpidios in place of the protospatharios's fee, and the protosp
Having received a seaside property from him, i give back to him in exchange a mainland one as a permanent dwelling by gift. but the kalai property was
Most complete, not measured by time, not defined by partial successions nor by these alienations or those, but eternal, sufficient for all successions
Indicating by the documents, which it is also necessary to go through in order. and so that we may make the summaries concise, and not, by going throu
At that time for the ruler to ratify to her through a gift of a golden bull the property which he had previously granted to the man, not having been i
But the rest testified that they themselves were not present at such a sale, but had heard from the subscribing witnesses in the confirmatory document
He marveled at our western setting sun as a morning sunrise, and with the unspeakable pangs of his soul he discerned the ineffable will of god concern
On both sides the gift is valid for those who received it from there. for the estate was perhaps of the daughters of nicholas’s wife through paternal
Harmony, who of all could dissolve such a great bond, or rather these wonderful and in reality altogether indissoluble connections? for the first and
He has made known by an agreement to whom indeed you also entrusted everything under oath and, whatever they themselves should do, you have promised
Emperor of the romans, doukas. konstantinos, in christ the god faithful emperor of the romans, doukas. ioannes, most humble archbishop of constantinop
having beset it and stirred herself up to be divinely inspired and worked herself into a Bacchic frenzy. Now, that the many are deceived by this, I do not wonder at all; for the new and unaccustomed nature of the inspiration astounds the common person, and makes him wonder at or even reverence what is shown. but how shall we grant this to a high priest whose senses are trained and who has received discernment of worse and better? who knows only one divine spirit, renewed in prophetic hearts, ruling, not being ruled, mastering, not being mastered, not breathed in by certain signs and movements, but measured by the mind, appearing through purity and perfection of soul. But the great luminary of the truth and the one who had received the gift of discernment, having learned of this innovation of error, did not immediately destroy it, did not triumph over it, did not reject those who had accepted it, did not heal those who were corrupted, did not cast down this new Hellenism as a source of godlessness—far from it— but as if having found some great and splendid windfall, he adopts the whole error and is immediately captivated by the Hellenic theurgies. And so that he might first feast his eyes, he summons the oracle-singer and partly opens his own inner sanctuary to her and her companions. And that licentious and frenzied little woman enters, led by the hand by the initiators, by whom our great father also was instructed in the mysteries of Mithras. And the overseer and beholder of the great spirit, the one who stands with the archangels and with the seraphim offers up the thrice-holy hymn to God, the spectator of the great high priest and victim—but how can I relate to you the unutterable things? How can I not be defiled by describing such a rite? But I must speak, since I have fallen into such a discourse. Therefore, the lamp of divine things and luminary of the initiated, as if standing at Delphi, stood shuddering, awaiting the oracular voice and revering the prophetess. And the mystagogues on either side were preparing her and working her into a frenzy for the divine communication, urging her to raise her eyelids, to move her hand this way, but not that way, to bring her two feet together thus. And she for a time grew soft, letting out a rather faint voice, and was distressed by the inspiration. But when the whole preparation was completed, she was suddenly shaken, perhaps not bearing the coarseness of the spirit, and was immediately speechless, and, as those who exalt their practices say, also levitated. Then indeed, having moved her tongue—alas for the deceitful words and nonsense! For she falsely proclaimed the movement of the universe and a prediction of things to come and a catalogue of the celestial orders. And upon this some prophets came forward, and martyrs, and a chorus of holy women, and before all, the one with unshorn hair, so she called the Forerunner, with his mountain roughness and the harshness of his face. And after all these, the mother of the Word, whom, as if pitying her, she called "full of many sorrows," with her blasphemous tongue falsely attributing and speaking of birth-pangs and pains for her concerning the birth of the Word. and this is not mere talk, but his retinue and household know all these things; and I think that most of you are not unaware. but also the kindred of the patriarch, both those belonging to the women's quarters and those to the men's, all would jointly confess and agree. And my account has passed over most things, being both wary of the length of the writing and ashamed at the disgracefulness of the events. So things were thus, and again the Castalian spring was stirred and the speaking water echoed prophetically and the Delphic tripod recalled its ancient power, and the mystagogue of the more divine things was seen to be simply Hellenizing and following the doctrines of the Chaldeans. You, then, will think that I have said more than is natural, but to me it seems that less than the truth has been said. For I have neither described the postures of the Bacchic frenzy nor the babblings of the melancholic tongue
περικαθίσασα καὶ πρὸς τὸ ἐνθεάζειν ἑαυτὴν ἀνερεθίσασα καὶ ἀναβακχεύσασα. Τὸ μὲν οὖν τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐντεῦθεν ἐξαπατᾶσθαι οὐ πάνυ
θαυμάζω· τὸ γὰρ τῆς ἐπιπνοίας καινὸν καὶ ἀσύνηθες ἐκπλήττει τὸν ἰδιώτην, καὶ θαυμάζειν ἢ καὶ πρεσβεύειν ποιεῖ τὸ δεικνύμενον.
ἀρχιερεῖ δὲ τοῦτο πῶς δώσομεν γεγυμνασμένῳ τὰ αἰσθητήρια καὶ διάκρισιν εἰληφότι χείρονος καὶ βελτίονος; ὅς γε ἓν οἶδε μόνον
πνεῦμα θεῖον προφητικαῖς καρδίαις ἐγκαινιζόμενον, κατάρχον, οὐ καταρχόμενον, δεσπόζον, οὐ δεσποζόμενον, οὐ συνθήμασί τισι
καὶ κινήσεσιν εἰσπνεόμενον, ἀλλὰ νοῦ μετρούμενον, καθαρότητι καὶ ψυχῆς ἐμφαινόμενον τελειότητι. ἀλλ' ὁ μέγας τῆς ἀληθείας
φωστὴρ καὶ τὸ τῆς διακρίσεως εἰληφὼς χάρισμα τὴν καινοτομίαν ταύτην τῆς πλάνης μεμαθηκώς, οὐκ ἀνεῖλεν εὐθύς, οὐκ ἐθριάμβευσεν,
οὐ τοὺς παραδεδεγμένους ἀπώσατο, οὐ τοὺς λυμανθέντας ἰάσατο, οὐ τὸν καινὸν τοῦτον ἑλληνισμὸν καθεῖλεν ὡς ἀθεΐας ἀρχὴν- πολλοῦ
γε καὶ δεῖ-, ἀλλ' ὥς τι μέγα καὶ λαμπρὸν ἕρμαιον εὑρηκώς, ὅλην εἰσποιεῖται τὴν πλάνην καὶ ταῖς Ἑλληνικαῖς εὐθὺς θεαγωγίαις
ἁλίσκεται. καὶ ἵνα δὴ πρῶτον ἐντρυφήσῃ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς, τὴν χρησμῳδὸν εἰσκαλεῖ καὶ τοῖς περὶ αὐτὴν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ὑπανοίγνυσιν ἄδυτον.
καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀσελγὲς ἐκεῖνο καὶ μανιῶδες εἴσεισι γύναιον τοῖς τελετάρχαις χειραγωγούμενον, παρ' ὧν καὶ ὁ μέγας ἐπαιδοτριβεῖτο
πατὴρ ἐπὶ τὰ Μίθρου μυστήρια. καὶ ὁ τοῦ μεγάλου ἐπόπτης καὶ θεατὴς πνεύματος, ὁ μετὰ τῶν ἀρχαγγέλων ἱστάμενος καὶ μετὰ τῶν
σεραφὶμ τὸν τρισάγιον ὕμνον ἀναφέρων θεῷ, ὁ θεωρὸς τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ ἀρχιερέως καὶ θύματος-ἀλλὰ πῶς ἂν ὑμῖν τὰ ἄρρητα διηγήσωμαι;
πῶς δὲ μὴ χρανθήσωμαι τοιαύτην ἐξηγούμενος τελετήν; ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη λέγειν, ἐπειδήπερ εἰς τοιούτους λόγους ἐμπέπτωκα. ὁ τοίνυν
τῶν θείων λαμπτὴρ καὶ τῶν τελουμένων φωστήρ, ὥσπερ ἐν ∆ελφοῖς ἑστηκὼς ὑποφρίσσων εἱστήκει τὴν μαντῳδὸν ἀναμένων φωνὴν καὶ
σεβόμενος τὴν προφήτιδα. οἱ δὲ μυσταγωγοὶ ἑκατέρωθεν πρὸς τὴν θεαγωγίαν αὐτὴν παρεσκεύαζόν τε καὶ ἀνεβάκχευον, ἄων τὰς βλεφαρίδας
ἐγείρειν προτρέποντες, δευρὶ τὴν χεῖρα κινεῖν, ἀλλὰ μὴ δευρί, οὕτω συμβιβάζειν τὼ πόδε. ἡ δὲ τέως μὲν ἐμαλθακίζετο λεπτοτέραν
ἀφιεῖσα φωνὴν καὶ ἐδυσχέραινε τὴν ἐπίπνοιαν. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡ πᾶσα ἐτελέσθη παρασκευή, ὑπεσείσθη τε ἀθρόον, ἴσως οὐκ ἐνεγκοῦσα τοῦ
πνεύματος τὴν παχύτητα, καὶ ἄφωνος εὐθὺς ἦν, ὡς δέ φασιν οἱ τὰ ἐκείνων σεμνύνοντες, καὶ μετέωρος. εἶτα δὴ τὴν γλῶτταν κινήσασα-βαβαὶ
τῶν πλάνων λόγων καὶ ληρημάτων. κίνησιν γὰρ τοῦ παντὸς κατεψεύδετο καὶ μελλόντων πρόρρησιν καὶ οὐρανίων κατάλογον τάξεων.
προφῆται δέ τινες παρῄεσαν ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ μάρτυρες καὶ γυναικῶν ὁσίων χορὸς καὶ πρὸ πάντων ὁ ἀκερσεκόμης, οὕτω τὸν Πρόδρομον
λέγουσα μετὰ τῆς ὀρείου δασύτητος καὶ τῆς τοῦ προσώπου τραχύτητος. καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἡ τοῦ λόγου μήτηρ, ἣν ὥσπερ ἀποικτιζομένη
πολύπονον ἀπεκάλει, ὠδῖνας αὐτῇ καὶ ὀδύνας ἡ βλάσφημος γλῶσσα περὶ τὴν τοῦ λόγου γέννησιν καταψευδομένη καὶ λέγουσα. καὶ ταῦτα
οὐ λόγος, ἀλλ' ἅπαντα μὲν οἶδε τὸ περὶ αὐτὸν δορυφορικὸν καὶ οἰκίδιον· οἶμαι δὲ καὶ ὑμῶν τοὺς πλείους μὴ ἀγνοεῖν. ἀλλὰ καὶ
τὸ τοῦ πατριάρχου συγγενές, ὅσον τε εἰς τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν ἀνήκει καὶ ὅσον εἰς τὸν ἀνδρῶνα, πάντες κοινῇ συνομολογήσαιεν καὶ
συμφωνήσαιεν. Καὶ τὰ πλείω δὲ παρῆκεν ὁ λόγος, τό τε μῆκος τῆς γραφῆς ὑφορώμενος καὶ τῇ αἰσχύνη τῶν πραγμάτων ἐπαισχυνόμενος.
εἶχε μὲν οὖν οὕτω ταῦτα, καὶ πάλιν ἡ Κασταλία ἀνεκινήθη πηγὴ καὶ τὸ λαλοῦν ὕδωρ μαντικῶς ὑπερήχησε καὶ ὁ ∆ελφικὸς τρίπους
τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἀνεκαλέσατο δύναμιν, καὶ ὁ τῶν θειοτέρων μυσταγωγὸς ἀτεχνῶς ἑλληνίζων <ὤφθη> καὶ τοῖς Χαλδαίων λόγοις ἑπόμενος.
ὑμεῖς μὲν οὖν οἰήσεσθέ με πλείω τῶν πεφυκότων εἰπεῖν, ἐμοὶ δὲ ἔλαττον τῆς ἀληθείας εἰρῆσθαι δοκεῖ. οὔτε γὰρ τοὺς σχηματισμοὺς
τῆς βακχείας εἴρηκα οὔτε τοὺς ὕθλους τῆς μελαγχολώσης γλώσσης
