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 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 covering of the face, the subsequent covering of the feet, the middle and free flight. Hear the divine voices; for having spoken the voice of 'holy' three times, they have harmonized the divided things into one lordship, so that there they might declare the hypostases, and here the divinity. Do you wish to see another vision? Behold for me Paul being taken up and raised as far as the third heaven, then from there being transported to paradise and having heard divine words and enjoyed marvelous sights, but having kept all things unspeakable and ineffable. But he, perhaps, was envious and begrudged you the heavenly voices, while Dosithea is generous and ambitious; for this reason she also reveals the martyrs to you, having seen them perhaps mutilated and branded, and she shows you the holy ones in their worn-out rags, and she hints to you of the Forerunner, shaggy with hair and sun-burnt in complexion. I do not know whether I should charge you with insensibility or impiety. But if you accept every vision indiscriminately, why not also that of Hermes Trismegistus, which Poimandres—and he is a demon—showed to him? For those visions too are fearful and marvelous, a mist and deep darkness and a light appearing, and a father and a son being shown and spoken of as divine. Why not also the levitation of Empedotimus, which another demon graciously granted him, through which he is initiated into the immortality of souls? I fear that some deceitful demon, an Erotyches or Kasothas or Eptakis or some other, having misled or enticed your Dosithea, led her to these absurd visions; who, being envious of your soul—not to say having found it unprepared—has made the offshoots of impiety into climbing vines within it, having first corrupted and planted these beside and grafted them into your teachers as though they were dogmatists of the Word. But they renounced, he says, the opinions with which they were corrupted. When, O best of men, and how did they do this? Was it before the formal inquiries? Before the introduction? Before the public and common examination? At the judgment of their teachings, having detected the material spirit and rejected the form of their inspiration? For if, having compared their teachings to our standards, the abominable rite to the mystery of the Word, the Bacchante to the eyewitnesses and heralds of the ineffable, her indecent motion to our modest postures and movements, the intrusion of the demon to the descent of the governing spirit, their words to our words, the crazed to the composed; if, having thus measured these things against each other with scientific judgment, they then, having found the deviation from the established canons, condemned the practices as absurd, and having made public their suspicion to the mystagogues of the doctrines, they dishonored their dissension with the Word, then I would have accepted their renunciation of what they had known and numbered them among the catechumens, and then I would have brought them to the perfection of the mysteries. But if, in the midst of the dreadful proceedings, with the examiners presiding, with the judges harshly examining their opinions, with the scribe proclaiming the written doctrines, with those recording the votes of Themis harshly condemning the lawgiver, with the executioners all but sharpening their swords, and every kind of danger being signified, they disputed about what they had believed, shall I consider the matter an accurate judgment or, what it is, a contrived hypocrisy, and an exactness of opinion or a display of necessity? For those who had distrusted God-bearing men for many cycles of the sun and had established their own views on the patriarchal foundation, thus in a short time, before the few who had examined with them the structures of their doctrines
τε καὶ ἐπηρμένου καὶ τοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ καθημένου. γνῶθι τὰς χερουβικὰς καὶ σεραφικὰς πτέρυγας, τὴν τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τελειότητα, τὴν συμβολικὴν
τοῦ προσώπου συγκάλυψιν, τὴν ἐντεῦθεν περιστολὴν τῶν ποδῶν, τὴν μέσην καὶ ἐλευθέραν πτῆσιν. κλῦθι τῶν θείων φωνῶν· τρὶς γὰρ
εἰρηκότα τὴν τοῦ ἁγίου φωνὴν εἰς μίαν τὰ διῃρημένα συνηρμόκασι κυριότητα, ἵν' ἐκεῖσε μὲν τὰς ὑποστάσεις δηλώσωσιν, ἐνταῦθα
δὲ τὴν θεότητα. βούλει καὶ ἑτέραν ὀπτασίαν ἰδεῖν; ἰδέ μοι τὸν Παῦλον αἰρόμενον καὶ ἄχρι τρίτου ὑψούμενον οὐρανοῦ, εἶτ' ἐκεῖθεν
εἰς τὸν παράδεισον μεταγόμενον καὶ θείων μὲν ῥημάτων ἀκούσαντα καὶ θεαμάτων παραδόξων καταπολαύσαντα, ἄρρητα δὲ πάντα φυλάξαντα
καὶ ἀνέκφορα. ἀλλ' οὗτος μὲν ἴσως βάσκανος ἦν καὶ ἐφθόνησέ σοι τῶν οὐρανίων φωνῶν, ἡ δὲ ∆οσιθέα ἀφειδὴς καὶ φιλότιμος· διὰ
ταῦτά σοι καὶ τοὺς μάρτυρας ἐκκαλύπτει, ἠκρωτηριασμένους ἴσως ἰδοῦσα καὶ στιγματίας, καὶ τοὺς ὁσίους παραδεικνύει σοι ἐκτετρυχωμένοις
τοῖς ῥάκεσι, καὶ τὸν Πρόδρομον ὑπεμφαίνει σοι λάσιον ταῖς θριξὶ καὶ ἐκκεκαυμένον τὸ χρῶμα. οὐκ οἶδα πότερόν σοι ἀναισθησίαν
ἢ ἀσέβειαν ἐγκαλέσαιμι. εἰ δὲ πᾶσαν ὅρασιν ἀδιαφόρως δέχῃ, τί μὴ καὶ τοῦ Τρισμεγίστου Ἑρμοῦ, ἣν ὁ Ποιμάνδρης-δαίμων δὲ οὗτος-τούτῳ
παρέδειξε; κἀκεῖνα γὰρ φοβερὰ καὶ παράδοξα τὰ ὁράματα, ἀχλὺς καὶ ζόφος βαθὺς καὶ φῶς ἐκφαινόμενον καὶ πατὴρ καὶ υἱὸς δεικνύμενοι
καὶ θεολογούμενοι. τί μὴ καὶ τὸν Ἐμπεδοτίμου μετεωρισμόν, ὃν ἕτερος δαίμων τούτῳ πεφιλοτίμηται, δι' οὗ τὴν τῶν ψυχῶν μυεῖται
ἀθανασίαν; δέδοικα μὴ καὶ τὴν σὴν ∆οσιθέαν Ἐρωτύχην ἢ Κασόθαν ἢ Ἔπτακις ἢ εἴ τις ἄλλος δαίμων ἀπατηλὸς παρακρουσάμενος ἢ δελεάσας
ἐπὶ τὰς ἀτόπους ταύτας ὁράσεις μετήγαγεν· ὃς δὴ καὶ τῇ σῇ βασκαίνων ψυχῇ, ἵνα μὴ λέγω ἐμπαράσκευον αὐτὴν εὑρηκώς, τὰς τῆς
ἀσεβείας παραφυάδας ἀναδενδράδας ἐν ταύτῃ πεποίηκε, πρῶτόν γε ταύτας τοῖς σοῖς διδασκάλοις νοθεύσας τε καὶ παραρριζώσας καὶ
συνεγκεντρίσας αὐτοῖς ὡς τοῦ λόγου δογματισταῖς. Ἀλλ' ἀπωμόσαντο, φησίν, τὰς δόξας, αἷς συνεφθάρησαν. πηνίκα, ὦ βέλτιστε,
καὶ πῶς τοῦτο πεποιημένοι; ἆρά γε πρὸ τῶν εὐθυνῶν; πρὸ τῆς εἰσαγωγῆς; πρὸ τῆς πανδήμου καὶ κοινῆς ἐξετάσεως; ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν λόγων
κρίσεως τὸ ὑλικὸν πνεῦμα φωράσαντες καὶ τὸ εἶδος διαπτύσαντες τῆς ἐμπνεύσεως; εἰ μὲν γὰρ τὰ ἐκείνων παραβαλόντες τοῖς ἡμετέροις
γνώμοσι, τὴν βδελυρὰν τελετὴν τῷ μυστηρίῳ τοῦ λόγου, τὴν βάκχην τοῖς αὐτόπταις τῶν ἀρρήτων καὶ κήρυξι, τὴν ἐκείνης ἀσχήμονα
κίνησιν τοῖς σώφροσιν ἡμῶν σχήμασι καὶ κινήμασι, τὴν τοῦ δαίμονος εἰσφθορὰν τῇ καθόδῳ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ πνεύματος, τοὺς λόγους
τοῖς λόγοις, τοῖς καθεστηκόσι τοὺς μεμηνότας· εἰ οὕτω ταῦτα πρὸς ἄλληλα μετ' ἐπιστημονικῆς παραμετρήσαντες κρίσεως, ἔπειτα
τὸ παραλλάττον πρὸς τοὺς νενομισμένους κανόνας ἐφευρηκότες τῶν πραττομένων ὡς ἀτόπων κατεψηφίσαντο καὶ τοῖς τῶν δογμάτων μυσταγωγοῖς
δημοσιεύσαντες τὴν ὑπόνοιαν τὴν πρὸς τὸν λόγον διχόνοιαν ἠτιμάκασι, τότ' ἂν ἐδεξάμην αὐτῶν τὴν τῶν ἐγνωσμένων ἀποψήφισιν καὶ
μετὰ τῶν κατηχουμένων ἠρίθμησα, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τῇ τελειότητι τῶν μυστηρίων προσήνεγκα. εἰ δὲ ἐπ' αὐτοῖς τοῖς δεινοῖς, τῶν λογιστῶν
ἐφεστηκότων, τῶν δικαστῶν πικρῶς τὰς ὑπολήψεις ἐξεταζόντων, τοῦ γραμματέως τὰς ἐγγράφους δόξας κηρύττοντος, τῶν τὰς φωνὰς
ἀποσημαινομένων τῆς Θέμιδος πικρῶς καταψηφιζομένων τῆς θεσμοθέτιδος, μονονοὺ τῶν κολαστῶν τὰ ξίφη θηγόντων, καὶ παντὸς εἴδους
ὑποσημαινομένου κινδύνων, περὶ ὧν ἐδόξαζον, ἠμφισβήτησαν, πότερον ἀκριβῆ κρίσιν τὸ πρᾶγμα ἡγήσομαι ἤ, ὅπερ ἐστίν, ὑπονενοημένην
ὑπόκρισιν, καὶ γνώμης ἀκρίβειαν ἢ ἀνάγκης ἐπίδειξιν; οἱ γὰρ θεοφόροις ἀνδράσι διαπιστήσαντες ἐν περιόδοις ἡλίου πολλαῖς καὶ
ἐπὶ τοῦ πατριαρχικοῦ θεμελίου τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἐμπεδώσαντες οὕτως ἐν βραχεῖ πρὸς ὀλίγους τοὺς συνεξητακότας τὰς οἰκοδομὰς τῶν δογμάτων
