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

Immediately, therefore, all blushed, or rather, indeed, they shouted with their voices and condemned the leaders of the impiety and named their writings blasphemies and considered their opinion an alienation from the faith and committed the judgment to a synodical decision. Therefore, their accusation was at once recorded in writing, and he who dictated it was first in eloquence, and the writing most lawful and most secure, and a lock was placed upon the impiety, and like a hurricane or a whirlwind the new opinion, suddenly stirred up with a rushing sound, was blown away and scattered. It was necessary then that not only those who began the impiety, but also the one who shared their dogma, should undergo the same condemnation. But they, being separated, were carried away into exile, while the great high priest kept the impiety in his bosom, not speaking openly the evil dogma, but nevertheless nourishing it in his soul and desiring to one day burst forth the basilisk hidden within him against the divine fullness of the church. And to omit the things in between, as soon as our great emperor had taken hold of the royal sceptres the high priest uttered his first word on their behalf, seizing the time of his cares and persuading the emperor by a sudden approach; for he did not yet know either that they had chosen to hold wrong opinions, or that for this reason they had been driven from the city. Again, therefore, the divided river ran together into one channel of impiety, and they poured back to the source from which they had also flowed. But I do not know which to accuse first, the high priest's audacity or such great insensibility; for both are equal in magnitude and rank. For may the measure of the word not escape me. But understand the force, and you will not find them different. It is absurd, then, if Arius, because he divided wrongly, is rejected, and Sabellius because he thus confounded, and Nestorius because he imagined the divine, and Eutyches because he fashioned the man, and the Greek because he posits the soul as unbegotten and time as co-eternal with God, and the Chaldean because he conceived of a descent of spirits; but the great and divine shepherd, having comprehended all these things in his one soul, shall not be driven from the list of the sacred? And Hosea, son of Beeri, threatens Israel with abandonment by God, not because they have plundered or committed some other outrage, but stating the cause, "they consulted," <he says>, "with symbols and with his staves they reported to him." And lest anyone should think such an inspiration is from a more divine spirit, "by a spirit," he says, "of fornication they were led astray"; and that one may know that this is an outright separation from God, "they have gone whoring," he says, "from their God." For he does not consider such a rite a simple departure from the better, but frenzied and whorish. The prophet, then, treating the matter as the height of wickedness, <says> that progress towards material spirits is an alienation from God; but you, I know not what, contrive things that are entirely excessive and beyond reason. The account, therefore, concerning the nature of the heresy has thus been set forth for you in detail and no one could move his tongue concerning this. But as to the point that, since the men were not deposed by a synod, for this reason it was permitted for the great high priest and father both to associate with them without fear and to use all that pertains to divine spirits and eyewitnesses of the Word and heralds and to consider their heresy, which had for some time been half-manifestly demonstrated, a divine teaching, this too we will most easily resolve for you. For first we will say this, that the tribunal convened against them was not deprived of a synodical part, but there were also some of the high priests who both found fault with those words and spat upon the written dogmas as spurious and illegitimate. But the great father was absent for good reason; for he would have cast a vote against himself, whatever of the new dogmas he rejected. For he who had already drunk their intoxication how could he, as if they had vomited up this nonsense

εὐθὺς οὖν ἅπαντες ἠρυθρίασαν, μᾶλλον μὲν οὖν ἠλάλαξαν ταῖς φωναῖς καὶ τῶν ἐξάρχων τῆς ἀσεβείας κατεψηφίσαντο καὶ τὰς συγγραφὰς βλασφημίας κατωνομάκασι καὶ πίστεως ἀλλοτρίωσιν τὴν ἐκείνων δόξαν ἐνόμισαν καὶ συνοδικῇ ἀποφάσει τὴν κρίσιν ἀνέθεσαν. γράμμασιν οὖν εὐθὺς ἡ τούτων ἐνεσημάνθη κατηγορία, καὶ ὁ ὑπαγορεύσας τὰ πρῶτα τῆς λογιότητος, καὶ ἡ γραφὴ ἐννομωτάτη καὶ ἀσφαλεστάτη, καὶ κλεὶς ἐπετέθη τῇ ἀσεβείᾳ, καὶ ὡς λαῖλαψ ἢ τυφὼν ἀθρόον ἡ καινὴ δόξα ῥοιζηδὸν διακινηθεῖσα διεπνεύσθη καὶ διεσκεδάσθη. ἔδει μὲν οὖν τότε μὴ τοὺς ἀρξαμένους μόνον τοῦ ἀσεβήματος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν κοινωνήσαντα τούτοις τοῦ δόγματος τὴν αὐτὴν ὑποστῆναι κατάκρισιν. ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν διαιρεθέντες ὑπερόριοι ἀπηνέχθησαν, ὁ δὲ μέγας ἀρχιερεὺς ἐγκόλπιον ἐφύλαττε τὴν ἀσέβειαν, οὐ παρρησιαζόμενος μὲν τὸ πονηρὸν δόγμα, τρέφων δὲ ὅμως ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ ἐπιθυμῶν ἀναρρῆξαί ποτε τὸν ἐγκεκρυμμένον αὐτῷ βασιλίσκον κατὰ τοῦ θείου τῆς ἐκκλησίας πληρώματος. Καὶ ἵνα τὰ ἐν μέσῳ ἐάσω, ὁμοῦ τε ὁ μέγας ἡμῶν αὐτοκράτωρ τῶν βασιλικῶν σκήπτρων ἐπείληπτο καὶ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς πρώτην ὑπὲρ ἐκείνων ἀφῆκε φωνὴν, τὸν καιρὸν τῶν φροντίδων ἁρπάσας καὶ πείσας ἐξ ἐφόδου τὸν αὐτοκράτορα· οὔπω γὰρ εἰδὼς ἦν, οὔθ' ὅτι δοξάζειν κακῶς εἵλοντο, οὔθ' ὅτι ἐντεῦθεν τῆς πόλεως ἀπελήλαντο. πάλιν οὖν ὁ διαιρεθεὶς ποταμὸς εἰς μίαν ἀμάραν τῆς ἀσεβείας συνέδραμε, καὶ πρὸς τὴν πηγὴν ἀνεχύθησαν ὅθεν καὶ ἀπερρύησαν. ἐγὼ δὲ οὐκ οἶδα τίνος πρώτου κατηγορήσω, τῆς τοῦ ἀρχιερέως τόλμης ἢ τῆς τοσαύτης ἀναισθησίας· ἄμφω γὰρ ἶσα τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὴν τάξιν. μὴ γάρ μοι τὸ μέτρον τοῦ ῥήματος παρατρέχοιτο. ἀλλ' οὖν νοεῖτε τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν εὑρήσετε διάφορα. ἄτοπον οὖν, εἰ μὲν Ἄρειος, ὅτι διῄρει κακῶς ἠθέτηται, καὶ Σαβέλλιος ὅτι οὕτω συνῄρει, καὶ Νεστόριος ὅτι τὸ θεῖον ἐφάνταζε, καὶ ὁ Εὐτυχὴς ὅτι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐσχημάτιζε, καὶ ὁ Ἕλλην ὅτι ἀγέννητον τίθεται τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸν χρόνον συναΐδιον τῷ θεῷ, καὶ ὁ Χαλδαῖος ὅτι πνευμάτων ἐπενοεῖτο κάθοδον· ὁ δὲ μέγας καὶ θεῖος ποιμὴν ταῦτα πάντα συνειληφὼς ἐν μιᾷ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῇ οὐκ ἀπελαθήσεται τοῦ καταλόγου τῶν ἱερῶν; καὶ ὁ μὲν τοῦ Βεηρεὶμ Ὠσηὲ ἐγκατάλειψιν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπειλεῖ τοῦ θεοῦ, οὐχ ὅτι σεσυλήκασιν ἢ ἄλλο τι πεπαρῳνήκασιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν αἰτίαν τιθείς, "ἐν συμβόλοις", <φησίν>, "ἐπηρώτων καὶ ἐν ῥάβδοις αὐτοῦ ἀπήγγελλον αὐτῷ." καὶ ἵνα μή τις τὴν τοιαύτην ἐπίπνοιαν ἐκ πνεύματος θειοτέρου ἡγήσεται, "πνεύματι," φησίν, "πορνείας ἐπλανήθησαν"· ὡς δ' ἄν τις γνοίη ὅτι διάστασίς ἐστι τοῦτο ἄντικρυς τοῦ θεοῦ, "ἐξεπόρνευσαν," φησίν, "ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτῶν". οὐ γὰρ ἁπλῶς μετάστασιν ἀπὸ τοῦ κρείττονος τὴν τοιαύτην οἴεται τελετήν, ἀλλὰ μεμηνυῖαν καὶ πορνικήν. ὁ μὲν οὖν προφήτης, ὡς κορυφὴν τῆς κακίας ἀνάγων τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἀλλοτρίωσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ <φησι> τὴν πρὸς τὰ ὑλικὰ πνεύματα προχώρησιν· ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐκ οἶδ' ὅ τι σοφίζεσθε περισσὰ πάντως καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸν λόγον. Ὁ μὲν οὖν περὶ τοῦ εἴδους τῆς αἱρέσεως λόγος οὕτως ὑμῖν διηκρίβωται καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι τις περὶ τούτου τὴν γλῶτταν κινεῖν. τὸ δ', ἐπεὶ οὐ συνοδικῶς οἱ ἄνδρες καθῄρηνται, διὰ τοῦτο ἐξῆν τῷ μεγάλῳ ἀρχιερεῖ καὶ πατρὶ ἀδεῶς τε τούτοις συνεῖναι καὶ χρᾶσθαι ὅσα θείοις πνεύμασι καὶ αὐτόπταις τοῦ λόγου καὶ κήρυξι καὶ τὴν ἡμιφανῶς τέως ἀποδεδειγμένην αὐτῶν αἵρεσιν θείαν ἡγεῖσθαι διδασκαλίαν, καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν ῥᾷστα διαλυσόμεθα. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνο ἐροῦμεν, ὅτι τὸ κατ' αὐτῶν συγκροτηθὲν δικαστήριον οὐδὲ τῆς συνοδικῆς μερίδος ἐστέρητο, ἀλλ' ἦσάν τινες καὶ τῶν ἀρχιερέων ἐπιμεμφόμενοί τε τοῖς λόγοις ἐκείνοις καὶ ὡς παρέγγραπτα καὶ νόθα τὰ γεγραμμένα διαπτύοντες δόγματα. ὁ δὲ μέγας ἀπεδεδημήκει πατὴρ εἰκότως· καθ' ἑαυτοῦ γὰρ ἂν ἐτίθει ψῆφον, ὅ τι τῶν καινῶν δογμάτων ἠθέτει. ὁ γὰρ τὴν τούτων μέθην προπεπωκὼς πῶς ἂν ὡς ἐμέσαντας τούτους τὸν ὕθλον