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

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, you neglect and mock openly; but where he seems to you to have contributed to the will of your soul, you both admire and are amazed. And like the sophists, reading the law, you then praise and admire and uncover the mind of the lawgiver. But why have these many things been written by you in relation to the emperor's letter? For it was necessary, if indeed you wished to be impious, if indeed it was necessary to set forth the proposition concerning the monastery, to have made your argument as if to God and to have come to the memory of no other; but you, as if on purpose wishing to praise the Chians, attend to a generic discourse, tracing their genealogy like the rhetors and all but acting as a midwife and by promise bringing them to life. Then indeed you bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord and add the rest, things which one would have hesitated to attest even for Gregory and Basil, the genuine heralds of the Word and great champions of the truth; then those many things, and above all, you proclaim them as victors. Oh, the absurdity of the argument, if indeed we, the champions of piety, are the persecuted, while those who have manifestly been impious are martyrs and worthy of proclamation. Victors are they who, as much as was in them, took away the crown of our faith and cast down our dignity and tyrannized the simplicity of the faith; victors are they who have acted insolently against the divine spirit and have made themselves dependent on other spirits and have believed in the most unutterable things. Then were you not ashamed of the impiety of the word? But you call slanderous those who made their impiety public, while you crown these men with your speech and proclaim them in the middle of the theater and declare them with the diadem. And those men, indeed, when they were paying the penalty for their impiety, confessed that they were no less impious than the others, but you make them heralds of theology and champions of truth and martyrs. But why do I argue with this man? But I would gladly ask you again, if indeed these things are pious and do not clash with any of our voices. But no one would say so, unless he were openly mad or wished to fight with shadows. If, therefore, one of you should learn that some other person is composing an encomium for that Nestorius or attaching himself to Apollinarius, would he not reasonably be indignant and, having charged the writer or the one otherwise attached with impiety, drive him far from the church? Is it not therefore absurd, if you would be reasonably angry against such men, but will have less anger against those who have innovated new doctrines and those who have accepted them? But if in their writings some words of piety are mixed in, and theological outlines, one should not be surprised; for all the corrupt opinions, which we now curse, chose to be impious starting from a part of the catholic doctrines, and since you know this I do not elaborate further except so far as is reasonable. For example, that Origen who flourished at the same time as Porphyry the philosopher both approached our theology and accepted the economy, but he gave the beginnings to all the heresies. And having composed a lengthy writing against Celsus, he honors our beliefs, and in some of the parts he also theologizes purely. And Apollinarius too, having refuted Porphyry, in some places utters the same things as those who have theologized precisely. And Eunomius, weaving his treatise of impiety, has made the beginning of his argument from the highest and first substance. And Nestorius even escapes the notice of many that he is precisely impious, deceiving the more simple with homonyms. Therefore, one should not accept them if father and son and spirit and emptying and incarnation and the other things appear in the writings of the new dogmatists, but if they have erred concerning one thing, they have destroyed the whole. And if some small thing be in error, the difference has become an innovation of doctrine; for not

δέ σου ἡδέως ἄγαμαι καὶ τὸ ἐν ὑπομνήματι τοῦ καλοῦ ἐγκώμιον. οὗ μὲν γὰρ τὸ ὅλον ἀντέχεται καὶ τὰς κοινὰς φροντίδας ἀχθοφορεῖ, κατολιγωρεῖς καὶ σκώπτεις ἄντικρυς· οὗ δέ σοι δοκεῖ συμβεβλῆσθαι πρὸς τὸ βούλημα τῆς ψυχῆς, ἄγασαί τε καὶ τέθηπας. καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ σοφισταὶ τὸν νόμον ἀναγινώσκων ἔπειτα ἐπαινεῖς καὶ θαυμάζεις καὶ τοῦ νομοθέτου τὴν γνώμην ἀνακαλύπτεις. τί δέ σοι τὰ πολλὰ ταυτὶ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως γραφὴν γέγραπται; ἐχρῆν γάρ, εἴ γε καὶ ἀσεβεῖν βεβούλησαι, εἴ γε καὶ ἐχρῆν τὴν περὶ τοῦ μοναστηρίου θεῖναι ὑπόθεσιν, ὡς πρὸς θεὸν τὸν λόγον ποιούμενον καὶ μηδενὸς ἑτέρου πρὸς μνήμην ἐλθεῖν· σὺ δὲ ὥσπερ ἐξεπίτηδες ἐγκωμιάσαι τοὺς Χιώτας βουλόμενος γενικῷ προσέχεις τῷ λόγῳ, γενεαλογῶν αὐτοὺς ὥσπερ οἱ ῥήτορες καὶ μονονοὺ μαιεύων καὶ ἐξ ἐπαγγελίας προσάγων τῷ βίῳ. εἶτα δὴ ἀνάγων ἐν παιδείᾳ καὶ νουθεσίᾳ κυρίου καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ προστιθεῖς, ἃ κἂν ἀπώκνησέ τις Γρηγορίῳ καὶ Βασιλείῳ προσμαρτυρῶν, τοῖς γνησίοις τοῦ λόγου κήρυξι καὶ μεγάλοις τῆς ἀληθείας ἀγωνισταῖς· εἶτα τὰ πολλὰ ἐκεῖνα καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἀνακηρύττεις ὡς στεφανίτας. ὢ τῆς ἀτοπίας τοῦ λόγου, εἴ γε διῶκται μὲν ἡμεῖς οἱ τῆς εὐσεβείας προστάται, οἱ δὲ προφανῶς ἀσεβήσαντες μάρτυρες καὶ ἀναρρήσεως ἄξιοι. στεφανῖται οἱ τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἡμῶν ὅσον τὸ ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς ἀφελόμενοι στέφανον καὶ καταβαλόντες ἡμῶν τὸ ἀξίωμα καὶ τὸ ἁπλοῦν τῆς πίστεως τυραννήσαντες· στεφανῖται οἱ τοῦ θείου καταφρυαξάμενοι πνεύματος καὶ πνευμάτων ἑτέρων ἑαυτοὺς ἐξαρτήσαντες καὶ τοῖς ἀρρητοτάτοις πιστεύσαντες. εἶτα οὐκ ᾐσχύνθης τοῦ ῥήματος τὴν ἀσέβειαν; ἀλλὰ βασκάνους μὲν ἀποκαλεῖς τοὺς δημοσιεύσαντας τὴν ἐκείνων ἀσέβειαν, στεφανοῖς δὲ τούτους τῷ λόγῳ καὶ ἐν μέσῳ θεάτρῳ ἀνακηρύττεις καὶ ἀναγορεύεις τῷ διαδήματι. κἀκεῖνοι μέν, ὁπηνίκα τὴν δίκην ὑπεῖχον τοῦ ἀσεβήματος, ἀσεβεῖν οὐδὲν ἧττον τῶν ἄλλων ὡμολογήκασι, σὺ δὲ κήρυκας θεολογίας ποιεῖς καὶ προμάχους ἀληθείας καὶ μάρτυρας. ἀλλὰ τί μοι πρὸς τοῦτον ὁ λόγος; ἐγὼ δὲ ἡδέως ἂν καὶ πάλιν πυθοίμην ὑμῶν, εἴ γε εὐσεβῆ ταῦτα καὶ πρὸς μηδεμίαν τῶν ἡμετέρων προσκρούει φωνῶν. ἀλλ' οὐδεὶς ἂν εἴποι, εἰ μὴ μελαγχολᾶν ἄντικρυς ἢ σκιαμαχεῖν βούλοιτο. εἰ τοίνυν τις ὑμῶν γνοίη τῶν ἄλλων τινὰ Νεστορίῳ ἐκείνῳ ξυντιθέντα ἐγκώμιον ἢ Ἀπολιναρίῳ προσθέμενον, ἆρ' οὐχ ἂν εἰκότως ἀγανακτήσειε καὶ ἀσέβειαν ἐγκαλέσας τῷ γράψαντι ἢ προσκειμένῳ ἄλλως πόρρω τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐλάσειεν; οὐκοῦν ἄτοπον, εἰ κατὰ μὲν τῶν τοιούτων εὐλόγως ἂν ὀργιεῖσθε, κατὰ δὲ τῶν νέα καινοτομησάντων δόγματα καὶ τῶν ταῦτα παραδεξαμένων ἐλάττονα τὴν ὀργὴν ἕξετε; Εἰ δὲ τοῖς τούτων συγγράμμασι καί τινα εὐσεβείας ἀναμέμικται ῥήματα καὶ θεολογικαὶ ὑποτυπώσεις, θαυμάζειν οὐ χρή· πᾶσαι γὰρ αἱ διεφθαρμέναι δόξαι, αἷς ἐπαρώμεθα νῦν, ἀπὸ μέρους τῶν καθολικῶν δογμάτων ἀσεβεῖν εἵλοντο, καὶ ὡς εἰδότων ὑμῶν οὐ πλέον τι προσεξεργάζομαι εἰ μὴ ὅσον εἰκός. αὐτίκα γοῦν Ὠριγένης ἐκεῖνος ὁ συνακμάσας Πορφυρίῳ τῷ φιλοσόφῳ καὶ τῇ καθ' ἡμᾶς θεολογίᾳ προσβέβηκε καὶ τὴν οἰκονομίαν ἐδέξατο, ἀλλὰ ταῖς αἱρέσεσι πάσαις τὰς ἀρχὰς ἐκεῖνος ἐνδέδωκε. κατὰ δὲ Κέλσου πολύστιχον ποιησάμενος σύγγραμμα σεμνύνει μὲν τὰ ἡμέτερα, ἐνιαχοῦ δὲ τῶν μερῶν καὶ θεολογεῖ καθαρῶς. καὶ Ἀπολινάριος δὲ Πορφυρίου καταδραμὼν ἔστιν ὅπου ταὐτὰ τοῖς ἀκριβῶς θεολογήσασι φθέγγεται. καὶ Εὐνόμιος τὸ σύγγραμμα τῆς ἀσεβείας ὑφαίνων ἐκ τῆς ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρώτης οὐσίας τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ λόγου πεποίηται. Νεστόριος δὲ καὶ λανθάνει πολλοὺς ὅτι ἀκριβῶς ἀσεβεῖ, ταῖς ὁμωνυμίαις τοὺς ἁπλουστέρους παρακρουόμενος. οὐ τοίνυν εἰ πατὴρ καὶ υἱὸς καὶ πνεῦμα κένωσίς τε καὶ σάρκωσις καὶ τἄλλα τοῖς τῶν νέων δογματιστῶν ἐμφαίνεται γράμμασιν, ἀποδέχεσθαι χρή, ἀλλ' εἰ περὶ ἕν τι διημαρτήκασι, τὸ πᾶν ἀπολώλασι. κἂν βραχύ τι ἁμαρτανόμενον ᾖ, καινοτομία τὸ διαφέρον καθέστηκε δόγματος· οὐ γὰρ