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
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 not left out of the common hearing and judgment—but these men at least have shaken for the Chians the rotten foundations of their doctrines and have destroyed every height of impiety, men who have read our genuine writings and have accurately known the dogmas of truth and have consulted many books about these matters, and who have at the same time known what is spurious and illegitimate, just as the Asclepiadae know poisons and philosophers know sophistries, so as not to be deceived and distinguishing them from the noble and proper doctrines. But you seem to me even to be tearing apart the great body of the church, which the Lord, having taken away the middle wall of partition, brought together and joined. For even if in other matters the members of the senate are divided from the synod, yet they are not in the doctrine of piety, nor is it law, that the latter should reject what the former have decided, or that the former should hold and champion those doctrines which the latter have condemned. I shall ask you a short question. Therefore, if someone were suspected by you of not thinking rightly about God, from certain appearances and customs, I say, yet did not give an account in a council nor was convicted of teaching contrary to the doctrine nor was synodically deposed, will you converse with him without fear or will you subject your soul or would you choose to be his disciple? Is it not then absurd if, what you would wish to be precise about, you will concede to the patriarch by his authority? And how, those things which you would grant to him as lawful and pious, did you then misrepresent and ridicule? How and in what way? Neither conversing with the Chians after the common refutation against them, except by all necessity, meeting with them ill-advisedly, nor receiving them in your houses, but also blaming the archbishop, because after so great a judgment and decision he did not even so decide to push them away and turn from them. And why has he not then also convened a synod against them, when their doctrine was so slandered and their dogmas shaken? For let it be that the senate has not lawfully deposed them. But how has the synod neglected what was left undone? For if the great master considered the senatorial judgment final, how did he again meet with them and converse with them and was numbered among the great fathers and fill his own amphora from their ocean-like spring? But if he did not permit them to judge when making their argument about dogmas, why did he not himself set a second judgment and investigate the new dogmas of the men and declare the distinction to be canonical? For did he, thinking himself alone an orthodox dogmatist, suppose that the rest of the part of our city, or rather of the whole inhabited world, were perverted concerning the doctrine of the dogma? Or rather, which is also true, while we have stood firm on the dogmas we have received, he, having shifted his feet, has slipped down to the precipice of destruction. And that the proof concerning these things is not an artifice of words, their own writings cry out, to which he paid attention as to oracles and honored as divine prophecies. But most of these things have been granted to us by way of concession, since, if we should wish to consider the truth, not all of the dogmas, as many as are now slandered synodically, were refuted and in councils of the fathers judged foreign to piety, but most of them we at once cast from our own soul, comparing and contrasting them with the word of the gospel as perverted. The Platonic recollections and the Hellenic transmigration of souls and the initiator gods and the intermediary state of souls and the Hecatic power and the world-leading demons and the angelic fates, which of the fathers or when did they in a common council shake and depose? But the ethereal firmaments and the fiery intellect and the once-beyond and the dyadic god I think even the ancient mystagogues of piety were ignorant of; but the
διέγνωκεν; εἰ δὲ καὶ μὴ τὸ τῆς συνόδου μέρος τῇ συγκλήτῳ βουλῇ συντετέλεκε μηδὲ τοῖς ἐκκρίτοις τῶν Ναζιραίων- καὶ γὰρ οὐδ'
ἡ μερὶς αὕτη τῆς κοινῆς ἀκροάσεως καὶ κρίσεως ἀπολέλειπτο-ἀλλ' οὗτοί γε διέσεισάν τε τοῖς Χιώταις τοὺς σαθροὺς θεμελίους τῶν
λόγων καὶ πᾶν ἀσεβείας καταλελύκασιν ὕψωμα, ἄνδρες τούς τε γνησίους ἡμῶν λόγους ἀνεγνωκότες καὶ τὰ τῆς ἀληθείας ἠκριβωκότες
δόγματα καὶ πολλοῖς περὶ τούτων βιβλίοις προσομιλήσαντες, τά τε παρέγγραπτα καὶ νόθα ὥσπερ οἱ Ἀσκληπιάδαι τὰ δηλητήρια καὶ
οἱ φιλόσοφοι τὰς σοφιστείας ὁμοῦ τε γνόντες, ὥστε μὴ ἀπατᾶσθαι καὶ τῶν εὐγενῶν καὶ οἰκείων ἀποδιελόμενοι λόγων. ὑμεῖς δέ μοι
καὶ διασπᾶν δοκεῖτε τὸ μέγα σῶμα τῆς ἐκκλησίας, ὅπερ ὁ κύριος τὸ μεσότοιχον ἀφελόμενος συνεβίβασε καὶ συνήρμοσεν. εἰ γὰρ καὶ
τἆλλα οἱ τῆς συγκλήτου διῄρηνται πρὸς τὴν σύνοδον, ἀλλ' οὐχὶ καὶ τῷ λόγῳ τῆς εὐσεβείας, οὐδὲ νόμος, ἃ μὲν οὗτοι γνοῖεν ἀθετεῖν
ἐκείνους, ὧν δὲ ἐκεῖνοι καταψηφίσαιεν, τούτους δοξάζειν τε ταῦτα καὶ προϊστᾶν τῶν λόγων. Ἐρήσομαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βραχύ τι ἐρώτημα.
ἆρ' οὖν, εἴ τις ὑμῖν ὑποληφθείη μὴ καλῶς δοξάζων περὶ θεοῦ, ἀπὸ σχημάτων φημί τινων καὶ ἐθῶν, μὴ μέντοι γε δοίη λόγους ἐν
συνεδρίῳ μηδ' ἐλεγχθείη πρεσβεύων παρὰ τὸν λόγον μηδὲ καθαιρεθείη συνοδικῶς, ἀδεῶς τούτῳ συνομιλήσετε ἢ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑποθήσεσθε
ἢ μαθητιᾶν αὐτῷ ἕλοισθε; οὔκουν ἄτοπον εἰ, ἅπερ ὑμεῖς ἀκριβοῦν ἐθέλοιτε, ταῦτα τῷ πατριάρχῃ κατ' ἐξουσίαν παραχωρήσετε; πῶς
δέ, ἃ ἐκείνῳ διδοίητε ὡς ἔννομα καὶ εὐσεβῆ, παρεγράψασθε τότε καὶ διεσύρατε; πῶς καὶ τίνα τρόπον; μήτε συνομιλοῦντες τοῖς
Χιώταις μετὰ τὸν κοινὸν κατ' αὐτῶν ἔλεγχον, ὅτι μὴ πᾶσα ἀνάγκη, ἀβουλήτως αὐτοῖς ἐντυγχάνοντες μήτε ταῖς οἰκίαις παραδεχόμενοι,
ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ἀρχιερέα καταμεμφόμενοι, ὅτι μετὰ τηλικαύτην κρίσιν καὶ γνῶσιν οὐδ' οὕτως ἀπωθεῖν ἐκείνους ἔγνω καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.
διὰ τί δὲ μὴ καὶ σύνοδον τηνικαῦτα κατ' αὐτῶν συγκεκρότηκεν οὕτω διαβληθέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ λόγου καὶ τῶν δογμάτων διασεισθέντων;
ἔστω γὰρ ὅτι μὴ καθῄρηκε τούτους ἐννόμως ἡ σύγκλητος. ἀλλὰ πῶς ἀφῆκε τὸ ἐλλελειμμένον ἡ σύνοδος; εἰ μὲν γὰρ αὐτοτελῆ τὴν συγκλητικὴν
κρίσιν ὁ μέγας δεσπότης ἡγήσατο, πῶς αὖθις συνῆλθε τούτοις καὶ συνωμίλησεν καὶ τοῖς μεγάλοις συνηριθμεῖτο πατράσι καὶ τὸν
ἑαυτοῦ ἀμφορέα ἐκ τῆς ὠκεανίτιδος ἐκείνων ἐπλήρου πηγῆς; εἰ δ' οὐ συνεχώρει τούτοις δικάζειν περὶ δογμάτων ποιουμένοις τὸν
λόγον, διὰ τί μὴ δευτέραν αὐτὸς ἔθετο κρίσιν καὶ τοῖς ἀνδράσι τὰ καινὰ διεξιχνίασε δόγματα καὶ κανονικὴν ἀπεφήνατο τὴν διάκρισιν;
ἦ γὰρ ἑαυτὸν μόνον ὀρθὸν οἰόμενος δογματιστήν, τὸ λοιπὸν μέρος τῆς καθ' ἡμᾶς πόλεως, μᾶλλον δὲ ἁπάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης, διεστραμμένους
περὶ τὸν τοῦ δόγματος λόγον ὑπείληφεν; ἢ μᾶλλον, ὅπερ καὶ ἀληθές ἐστιν, ἡμεῖς μὲν ἑδραῖοι ἐφ' ὧν παρειλήφαμεν δογμάτων βεβήκαμεν,
οὗτος δὲ παραλλάξας τοὺς πόδας πρὸς τὸν κρημνὸν τῆς ἀπωλείας κατώλισθε. καὶ ὅτι μὴ τέχνη λόγων ἡ περὶ τούτων ἀπόδειξις, αὐτὰ
βοᾷ τὰ ἐκείνων συγγράμματα, οἷς ὥσπερ λογίοις προσεῖχε καὶ ὡς θείους ἐτίμα χρησμούς. Ἀλλὰ τὰ πλείω τούτων κατὰ συγχώρησιν
ἡμῖν δέδοται, ἐπεί, εἴ γε τἀληθῆ σκοπεῖν ἐθέλοιμεν, οὐδὲ πάντα τῶν δογμάτων, ὅσα διαβέβληται νῦν συνοδικῶς, ἀπηλέγχθη καὶ
ἐν συνεδρίοις πατέρων ἀπεκρίθη τῆς εὐσεβείας, ἀλλὰ τά γε πλείω τῷ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου λόγῳ παραβάλλοντες καὶ συγκρίνοντες ὡς διεστραμμένα
τῆς ἑαυτῶν ψυχῆς ἀπωσάμεθα αὐτίκα. τὰς Πλατωνικὰς ἀναμνήσεις καὶ τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν μετεμψύχωσιν καὶ τοὺς τελετάρχας θεοὺς καὶ
τὴν μεσότητα τῶν ψυχῶν καὶ τὴν Ἑκατικὴν δύναμιν καὶ τοὺς κοσμαγοὺς δαίμονας καὶ τὰς ἀγγελικὰς κῆρας ποῖοι τῶν πατέρων ἢ πότε
ἐν κοινῷ συνεδρίῳ διέσεισάν τε καὶ καθῃρήκασι; τὰ δὲ αἰθέρια στερεώματα καὶ τὸν ἐκπύρινον νοῦν καὶ τὸν ἅπαξ ἐπέκεινα καὶ τὸν
δυαδικὸν θεὸν καὶ ἀγνοῆσαι οἴομαι τοὺς ἄνωθεν τῆς εὐσεβείας μυσταγωγούς· τὴν δὲ
