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
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 distinguished these things and condemned them by synodal judgments? Therefore, because the doctrines were not synodically denounced, shall we receive them into our soul without examination and have this as a defense for our own evil doctrine? Far from it. For not in this way, O excellent ones, would true reason judge these matters; but as many of the doctrines as have been refuted from of old by patristic and synodal decisions, are for us immediately rejected, but the others, measuring against the canon of the gospel, we both reject and will reject, until the reason of the offshoot casts off the thorn. Therefore we shall not beget the soul from the left parts of Hecate, because we have learned from scripture that it is the breath of God, nor shall we think that the virtues flow from her right flanks, but from above from the first source, and so to speak of our own judgment and of the inclination in both directions of free will. Nor will we hold the opinion that God is unparticipated by us, even if the Greek should strongly assert many things concerning this, because that He dwells in us and walks among us we have heard from the voices of the Word. Nor will we name the starting-point from the vision of God the gate of life except Christ alone, from whom we have also had our access to the Father, according to the apostle. Therefore we will not even accept the spirit among the Chians, because we have been taught another than this from the gospel, numbered together with the Father and the Son and honored with equal honor. Nor will we accept the ventriloquist, not even if she brings up Samuel from below, even if the great father both housed her and marveled at her and spent many days with her. And I fear that perhaps he even joined in the frenzied rites with her and was filled with the new spirit. For long ago, when the light of piety had not yet purely shone forth, nor the evangelical preaching reached all the ends of the earth, nor the doctrines of the day been unmixedly distinguished from those of the night, but while different thoughts were still intermingled among the knowledgeable and, so to speak, the word-judges, both the transparent among the opinions and the counterfeit and base were distinguished. For these reasons, councils of the fathers everywhere were assembled for the discernment of the word; and by these Arius, and by those Macedonius, and by others Sabellius the Libyan were ostracized from the church, and high priests alone were entrusted with the word of judgment. But now, with the genuine and illegitimate seeds having been distinguished, and the light having purely scattered the night, and all living under the great luminary, the rightly dividing word of the church, what is the reason that the mystagogues of impiety should not be renounced from the catalogue of the pious otherwise, unless patriarchs should reject and set them aside? Therefore, if someone should see someone having put the rising of the sun at his back and making his prayer toward the west, will he share the man's purpose until the patriarchal judgment and would he consider the manner of prayer a matter of indifference? Or would he immediately turn away and use himself as a rule for discernment? It is absurd therefore if, while spurning on our own things which do not even draw much slander upon themselves, concerning those things that are in every way condemned and immediately self-refuting and to be cast out we should need a synodal judgment. If therefore we should know someone Sabellianizing today and resolving the hypostases into one person, will we send him away immediately or will we share his opinion until the synod judges the man and condemns him? But you would not say so, unless you wished to be manifestly impious. How then, granting this, do you examine us bitterly, because we have fled the opinions of the Chians without having received from you the sanction for the separation? But I do not know,
Ἀριστοτέλους θεολογίαν καὶ τὴν ψυχογονίαν τοῦ Πλάτωνος καὶ τοὺς καινοὺς ἀριθμοὺς καὶ τὰς ἀναπλάσεις τῶν δογμάτων καὶ τὴν δαπάνην
τοῦ μεριστοῦ, τίς ποτε τῶν πάντων διέκρινε ταῦτα καὶ συνοδικαῖς γνώμαις καθῄρηκεν; ἆρ' οὖν, ὅτι μὴ συνοδικῶς τὰ δόγματα διεβλήθησαν,
ἀβασανίστως ἐκδεξόμεθα τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ ἀπολογίαν ἕξομεν τοῦτο τῆς ἡμετέρας κακοδοξίας; πολλοῦ γε καὶ δεῖ. Oὐ γὰρ οὕτως, ὧ βέλτιστοι,
ὁ ἀληθὴς λόγος διαιτῴη τοῖς πράγμασιν· ἀλλ' ὅσα μὲν τῶν δογμάτων πατρικαῖς ἄνωθεν καὶ συνοδικαῖς διαγνώσεσιν ἐξελήλεγκται,
αὐτόθεν ἡμῖν ἀποκέκριται, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πρὸς τὸν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου κανόνα παραμετροῦντες ἡμεῖς ἀποκρίνομέν τε αὖθις καὶ ἀποκρινοῦμεν,
ἔστ' ἂν ὁ τῆς παραβλαστήσεως λόγος ἀποφύῃ τὴν ἄκανθαν. οὐ τοίνυν ἀπὸ τῶν λαιῶν τῆς Ἑκάτης μερῶν ἀπογεννήσομεν τὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι
ἐμφύσημα θεοῦ ταύτην ἀπὸ τῆς γραφῆς μεμαθήκαμεν, οὐδ' ἀπὸ τῶν δεξιῶν αὐτῆς λαγόνων τὰς ἀρετὰς ῥεῖν οἰησόμεθα, ἀλλ' ἄνωθεν
ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης πηγῆς, εἰπεῖν δὲ καὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας γνώμης καὶ τῆς ἐπ' ἄμφω τοῦ αὐτοεξουσίου ῥοπῆς. οὐδὲ τὸν θεὸν ἀμέθεκτον ἡμῖν
δοξάσομεν, κἂν πολλὰ ὁ Ἕλλην περὶ τούτου διϊσχυρίζοιτο, ὅτι ἐνοικεῖν ἡμῖν καὶ ἐμπεριπατεῖν παρὰ τῶν τοῦ λόγου φωνῶν ἠκηκόειμεν.
οὐδὲ τὴν ἐκ τῆς θεοπτείας ἀφετηρίαν πύλην ζωῆς ὀνομάσομεν ὅτι μὴ τὸν Χριστὸν μόνον, παρ' οὗ καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα προσαγωγὴν
κατὰ τὸν ἀπόστολον ἐσχήκαμεν. οὐ τοίνυν οὐδὲ τὸ παρὰ τοῖς Χιώταις πνεῦμα παραδεξόμεθα, ὅτι ἕτερον τοῦτο παρὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου
δεδιδάγμεθα, πατρὶ συναριθμούμενον καὶ υἱῷ καὶ ὁμοτιμίᾳ τιμώμενον. οὐδὲ τὴν ἐγγαστρίμυθον ἐκδεξόμεθα, οὐδ' εἰ ἀναβιβάζει τὸν
Σαμουὴλ κάτωθεν, εἰ καὶ ὁ μέγας πατὴρ καὶ εἰσῳκίσατο καὶ τεθαύμακε καὶ πολλοῖς ἡλίοις συνδιημέρευσε. δέδοικα δὲ μή που καὶ
συνωργίακε συγκορυβαντιῶν αὐτῇ καὶ τοῦ καινοῦ συμπληρούμενος πνεύματος. Πάλαι μὲν γὰρ οὔπω τοῦ τῆς εὐσεβείας φωτὸς καθαρῶς
ἀναλάμψαντος οὐδὲ τοῦ εὐαγγελικοῦ κηρύγματος πάντα διειληφότος τὰ πέρατα οὐδὲ τῶν δογμάτων τῆς ἡμέρας ἀμιγῶς ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς νυκτὸς
διακριθέντων, ἀλλ' ἔτι ἀναμὶξ τῶν διαφόρων οὐσῶν νοήσεων ὑπὸ τοῖς ἐπιστήμοσι καί, ἵν' οὕτως εἴπω, λογογνώμοσι τά τε διαυγῆ
τῶν δοξασμάτων καὶ τὰ κίβδηλα καὶ ὑπόχαλκα διεκρίνετο. διὰ ταῦτα πατέρων ἁπανταχῇ ἐπὶ τῇ διακρίσει τοῦ λόγου συνέδρια συγκεκρότητο·
καὶ παρὰ τούτοις μὲν Ἄρειος, παρ' ἐκείνοις δὲ Μακεδόνιος καὶ παρ' ἄλλοις ὁ Λίβυς Σαβέλλιος τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐξωστρακίζοντο καὶ
ἀρχιερεῖς μόνοι τὸν λόγον τῆς κρίσεως ἐπιστεύοντο. νῦν δὲ τῶν γνησίων καὶ νόθων σπερμάτων διακριθέντων καὶ τοῦ φωτὸς καθαρῶς
τὴν νύκτα σκεδάσαντος καὶ πάντων ὑπὸ μεγάλῳ φωστῆρι, τῷ ὀρθοτόμῳ λόγῳ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, πολιτευομένων, τίς ὁ λόγος μὴ ἄλλως τοὺς
τῆς ἀσεβείας μυσταγωγοὺς τοῦ τῶν εὐσεβῶν καταλόγου ἀποκηρύττεσθαι, εἰ μὴ πατριάρχαι τούτους ἀποκρίνοιέν τε καὶ ἀθετήσαιεν;
ἆρ' οὖν, εἴ τις ἴδοι τινὰ κατὰ νώτου τὴν τοῦ ἡλίου πεποιημένον ἀνατολὴν καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἑσπέραν ποιούμενον τὴν εὐχήν, κοινωνήσει
τἀνδρὶ τοῦ σκοποῦ μέχρι τῆς πατριαρχικῆς κρίσεως καὶ ἀδιάφορον ἡγήσαιτο τὸ εἶδος τῆς προσευχῆς; ἢ εὐθὺς ἐκκλίνοι καὶ γνώμονι
ἑαυτῷ πρὸς τὴν διάκρισιν χρήσαιτο; ἄτοπον τοίνυν εἰ, ἃ μηδὲ πολλὴν ἐπισύρεται τὴν διαβολήν, ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν διαπτύοντες περὶ τῶν
πάντῃ κατεγνωσμένων καὶ αὐτόθεν αὐτελέγκτων καὶ ἀποβλήτων συνοδικῆς γνώμης δεησόμεθα. εἰ τοίνυν σαβελλίζοντά τινα γνοίημεν
τήμερον καὶ τὰς ὑποστάσεις εἰς ἓν πρόσωπον ἀναλύοντα, αὐτόθεν ἀποπεμψόμεθα ἢ συνδοξάσομεν μέχρι ἂν ἡ σύνοδος κρίνοι τὸν ἄνδρα
καὶ κατακρίνοι; ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν εἴποιτε, εἰ μὴ προδήλως ἀσεβεῖν βούλοισθε. πῶς οὖν τοῦτο διδόντες πικρῶς ἡμᾶς ἐξετάζετε, ὅτι τὰς
τῶν Χιωτῶν δόξας διαπεφεύγαμεν μὴ παρ' ὑμῶν εἰληφότες τῆς διαστάσεως τὸ ἐνδόσιμον; ἀλλ' οὐκ οἶδα,
