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
they have shaken. For if they happened to be uninitiated in our doctrines and completely uninstructed in the mysteries of the spirit, perhaps, having come to the light, they would have recognized the gloom of the mist; but since, though numbered among the flock of the Word, they transformed themselves into the shapes of beasts, and while professing every form of knowledge and thinking they knew the discernment of spirits, they made themselves over to worse things, how could they have straightway been transferred to the better part, when even then, as the dogma was being examined, they brought our words as advocates for their own corrupt opinions? Or if you wish to know that they have erased none of their doctrines from their soul, go over with me often the great master’s memoir concerning these things, so that you may know at once the excesses of their encomiums and the proclamations of their martyric contests. For he often crowns them there as if they had competed in the pentathlon and reminds them of their wrestlings and their athletic contests according to the rules; therefore, the denial of the doctrine is suspect from both sides; and the master, a sharer in both the dogma and the preaching, then anointing the athletes for the contests, is now awarding the prizes and crowning the head with fillets and dignifying for them the prophetess and honoring the new spirit; for whom the ones contended, and the other has crowned. So once Arius, named for his madness, having in hypocrisy renounced his own opinion and having crept into the church, the pure furrow of the Lord which bears the grain of faith, became a sower of tares. And if he had not swiftly enjoyed the destruction of his new dogma, having undergone a sudden rupture and division for which he was tearing apart the one nature of the three and wickedly dividing the Godhead, he would have corrupted and ruined all. But Alexander of Alexandria both suspected him and often drove him from the church; and finally, since he was not able to resist his violence, having offered supplication to God, he both violently shakes his bowels and empties him of his insides. But the great shepherd, our own, gladly welcomes the beasts of today and sets them upon the flock, or rather, with them he attempts to feast upon the flock, but I marvel that long ago, when the church of Christ had not yet been cleansed, if any thorny offshoot sprouted somewhere, it was immediately cut off, and the famous presidents of the sacred thrones, both in name and in deed, were driven out, while pious emperors were then directing the scepters—the great Constantine, Theodosius, the others, that I not speak of each one—not for new dogmas nor for certain impieties, but if contrary to reason they excommunicated any of those in the church, if they spoke ill or inflicted heavier blows. But now that the word of truth has been scattered everywhere, we are indignant if some patriarch, having acted impiously, shall be deposed. Then indeed some are also present to speak in his defense. For whom I feel shame, or rather I fear, lest, having chosen to extract the dart bloodlessly from others, they both tear them apart more with the barbs having sunk in and, simply pulling it upon themselves, drive it deeper, and they will nowhere have defenders, as all have been chastened by the example. For you have not sympathized with the high priest and compassionately shared his pain, while we are so rash and hard-hearted, but we ourselves also embrace the man no less, and above all our greatest emperor, who indeed attended to him with his mind as to a divine father and often bowed his head to him and permitted him to heal his soul and deemed him worthy of those great things which you all know. But while he set this man before others, he knows to honor God more than this man. And he fears the examination of this matter, lest he himself should be held accountable for the impiety of others. if
διέσεισαν. εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἀμύητοι τῶν καθ' ἡμᾶς λόγων ἐτύγχανον ὄντες καὶ παντάπασιν ἀκατήχητοι τῶν μυστηρίων τοῦ πνεύματος, τάχ'
ἂν τῷ φωτὶ προσελθόντες τῆς ἀχλύος τὸν ζόφον ἐγνώκασιν· ἐπεὶ δὲ μετὰ τῶν τοῦ λόγου θρεμμάτων συναριθμούμενοι εἰς θηρίων μορφὰς
ἑαυτοὺς μετεποίησαν καὶ πᾶν εἶδος ἐπαγγελλόμενοι γνώσεως καὶ διαφορὰν πνευμάτων εἰδέναι οἰόμενοι τοῖς χείροσιν ἑαυτοὺς εἰσεποίησαν,
πῶς ἂν εὐθὺς εἰς τὴν κρείττονα μερίδα μετέθεντο, ὁπότε καὶ τηνικαῦτα ἐξεταζομένου τοῦ δόγματος συνηγόρους τοὺς ἡμετέρους λόγους
ταῖς διεφθαρμέναις αὐτῶν δόξαις ἐπήγοντο; ἢ δὲ βούλει γνῶναι, ὅτι μηδέν τι τῶν δεδογμένων ἀπηλείφασι τῆς ψυχῆς, ἔπελθέ μοι
πολλάκις τὸ μέγα τοῦ δεσπότου περὶ τούτων ὑπόμνημα, ἵν' ὁμοῦ καὶ ἐγκωμίων γνοίης ὑπερβολὰς καὶ ἀγώνων ἀναρρήσεις μαρτυρικῶν.
στεφανοῖ γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖσε πολλάκις ὥσπερ διηγωνισμένους τὸν πένταθλον καὶ ἀναμιμνήσκει τῶν παλαισμάτων καὶ τῶν κατὰ νόμους
ἀθλήσεων· ἀμφοτέρωθεν οὖν ἡ τῆς δόξης ἄρνησις ὕποπτος· καὶ ὁ δεσπότης καὶ τοῦ δόγματος καὶ τοῦ κηρύγματος μέτοχος, τότε μὲν
ἀλείφων πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας τοὺς ἀθλητάς, νῦν δὲ βραβεύων τὰ γέρα καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ταινιῶν καὶ ἀποσεμνύνων αὐτοῖς τὴν μάντιδα
καὶ τὸ καινὸν πνεῦμα τιμῶν· ὑπὲρ ὧν οἱ μὲν ἠθλήκασιν, ὁ δὲ ἐστεφάνωσεν. Οὕτω ποτὲ καὶ ὁ τῆς μανίας ἐπώνυμος Ἄρειος τὴν οἰκείαν
δόξαν ἐν ὑποκρίσει ἀπομοσάμενος καὶ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ παρεισφθαρεὶς τῇ καθαρᾷ τοῦ κυρίου αὔλακι καὶ τὸν σῖτον καρποφορούσῃ τῆς πίστεως
σπορεὺς τῶν ζιζανίων ἐγένετο. καὶ εἰ μὴ θᾶττον τῆς φθορᾶς ἀπολελαύκει τοῦ καινοῦ δόγματος, ῥῆξιν ἀθρόαν ὑποστὰς καὶ διαίρεσιν
ἐφ' οἷς ἀνερρήγνυ τὴν μίαν τῶν τριῶν φύσιν καὶ διῄρει κακῶς τὴν θεότητα, διέφθειρεν ἄν γε πάντας καὶ ἐλυμήνατο. ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνον
μὲν ὁ Ἀλεξανδρείας Ἀλέξανδρος ὑπώπτευέ τε καὶ θαμὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀπήλαυνεν· καὶ τελευτῶν, ἐπεὶ μὴ ἀντισχεῖν πρὸς τὴν ἐκείνου
βίαν οἷός τε ἦν, ἱκετηρίαν θέμενος πρὸς θεὸν διασείει τε αὐτῷ ἀθρόως τὰ σπλάγχνα καὶ τῶν ἔνδον κενοῖ. τοὺς δὲ νῦν θῆρας αὐτὸς
ὁ μέγας ποιμὴν καὶ ἡμέτερος ἀσμένως εἰσδέχεται καὶ τοῖς θρέμμασι ἐπαφίησι, μᾶλλον δὲ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐπιχειρεῖ θοινᾶσθαι τὸ ποίμνιον,
ἐγὼ δὲ θαυμάζω ὅτι πάλαι μέν, οὔπω τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκκλησίας ἐκκαθαρθείσης, εἴ πῄ τις ἀκανθώδης παραφυὰς ἐβλάστανεν, εὐθὺς
ἀπετέμνετο, καὶ ἀπηλαύνοντο οἱ τῶν ἱερῶν θρόνων πρόεδροι οἱ περιβόητοι καὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασι καὶ τοῖς πράγμασιν, εὐσεβῶν αὐτοκρατόρων
καὶ τότε τὰ σκῆπτρα διϊθυνόντων, Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ πάνυ, Θεοδοσίου, τῶν ἄλλων, ἵνα μὴ καθ' ἕκαστον λέγω, οὐκ ἐπὶ καινοῖς δόγμασιν
οὐδ' ἐπ' ἀσεβείαις τισίν, ἀλλ' εἰ παρὰ τὸν λόγον τινὰ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀφώρισαν, εἰ κακῶς εἶπον ἢ πληγὰς βαρυτέρας ἐπήνεγκον.
νῦν δὲ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ἀληθείας διασπαρέντος ἁπανταχῇ δυσανασχετοῦμεν, εἴ τις πατριάρχης ἀσεβήσας καθαιρεθήσεται. Εἶτα δὴ καί
τινες ὑπὲρ τούτου συνηγορήσοντες πάρεισιν. ὑπὲρ ὧν αἰδοῦμαι, μᾶλλον δὲ δέδοικα, μὴ ἄλλων ἐξελεῖν ἀναιμωτὶ τὸ βέλος προῃρημένοι,
ἐκείνους τε μᾶλλον διασπαράξωσιν εἰσδεδυκυιῶν τῶν ἀκίδων καὶ ἀτεχνῶς ἐφελκυσάμενοι ἐφ' ἑαυτοὺς ἐμβαθύνωσι, καὶ οὐδαμῇ τοὺς
ὑπερμαχήσοντας ἕξουσι πάντων σωφρονισθέντων τῷ παραδείγματι. οὐ γὰρ ὑμεῖς μὲν συμπεπόνθατε τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ καὶ περιπαθῶς συνηλγήκατε,
ἡμεῖς δὲ οὕτως ἐσμὲν ἰταμοὶ καὶ θρασύσπλαγχνοι, ἀλλ' οὐδὲν ἔλαττον τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀσπαζόμεθα, καὶ πρὸ πάντων ὁ μέγιστος
ἡμῶν αὐτοκράτωρ, ὅς γε καὶ οἷα θείῳ πατρὶ προσεῖχε τούτῳ τὸν νοῦν καὶ πολλάκις αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑπέκλινε καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν
θεραπεύειν ἐδίδου καὶ τῶν μεγάλων ἐκείνων, ὧν ἴστε πάντες, ἠξίου. ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν ἄλλων τοῦτον προΐστα, τούτου δὲ μᾶλλον οἶδε
τιμᾶν τὸν θεόν. φοβεῖται δὲ καὶ τὴν περὶ τούτου τοῦ λόγου ἐξέτασιν, ἵνα μὴ τῆς τῶν ἄλλων ἀσεβείας αὐτὸς εὐθύνας ὑφέξοι. εἰ
