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

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 punishment of an impious man, and especially a patriarch, and greatest of all a king. For the one will transmit the corruption to all and will corrupt the whole flock, but this one, being able to prevent it, what defense could he invent before the incorruptible judge, what could he say as an excuse? If, then, the things that have been reproved, or rather exposed, were not commonly acknowledged, but held some dispute, I would have stirred up and gathered for you all the civil and ecclesiastical legislation. But since the facts lie bare and he who hears the charges immediately confirms them against the one charged and cannot say what other things could equal their magnitude, and is not ignorant of the punishments which the lawgivers attached to each of these acts? For these reasons, having myself omitted the greater part of the laws and the canons, and having recalled for you a few things from both tablets, I will make that clear to you, that although so many laws deter anyone from being mixed up with such doctrines and so many dangers overhang those who transgress, the master has scorned both, with great contempt for each of the laws, being initiated into unspeakable rites. For instance, then, the civil law bars every door of free speech to all who profess doctrines contrary to ours. But the master has parted even the barred doors and, as if removing some strong barrier, has given way to the wicked stream; and the entire region of the church was all but inundated, with rivers flowing in uncontrollably from without and a patriarchal spring from within gushing forth the streams of corrupt doctrines. The law, therefore, commands these things to the high priest concerning those who are so suspected; but concerning him, it urges us to prevent his entrance and free speech in the divine courts. And the same also orders the writings of Porphyry to be burned. But the great master, if he saw anything of that man's half-burnt and hidden in the soot, he read it more carefully, and whatever the fire had destroyed, this man rekindled and renewed that man's entire book. And he has brought back to us again the Bacchic rites, the purifications, the orgies, the mysteries, the possessions, the ceremonies, the whole entanglement of demons, so that we need a second conflagration, that the works of the new Porphyry might be consumed again. And some things have been burned, but others still remain, embers of that man's evils and memorials of the high priest's soul. And the law, on the one hand, casts out from the churches bishops who wish to hold the opinions of Nestorius, and on the other, exhorts all the rest of the people to curse them. But this divine shepherd has brightly rekindled the extinguished opinion and has again made the mother of the Lord liable to correction, and having received the voice of the evil spirit through the possessed woman, he testifies to her pains and labors. And again, it brings a public charge against those who dare to follow the ways of the Greeks and threatens loss of rank to those who give them freedom, but the luminary of the priesthood has undertaken to collect again the dissolved Greek trickery and, having first been initiated himself, he also opens the mysteries to others, for even if he has not gone to Pytho nor run to Dodona nor applied his hearing to the sounding vessel, yet he has transported the oracle itself into the divine temple; having taken the temple-sweeper herself and torch-bearer from Delphi, he has placed her within the inner sanctuary. He has brought the tripod itself into the church; He has drawn the very spirit that supplies the inspiration to the divine temple from the oracle's mouth at Delphi, from the error there, from the crossroads and the pits. He has made nocturnal phantoms into daylight visions. He has looked down upon all laws, canons, customs;

γὰρ ὁ δεχόμενος προφήτην μισθὸν προφήτου λήψεται, ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου καὶ μείζονος ὁ δεχόμενος ἀσεβῆ ποινὴν λήψεται ἀσεβοῦς, καὶ μάλιστα πατριάρχης, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον βασιλεύς. ὁ μὲν γὰρ πᾶσι μεταδώσει τῆς λύμης καὶ ὅλον διαφθερεῖ τὸ ποίμνιον, οὗτος δὲ ἀπείργειν δυνάμενος τίνα ἂν τὴν ἀπολογίαν πρὸς τὸν ἀδέκαστον πλάσαιτο δικαστήν, τί δ' ἂν εἴποι προφασισάμενος; εἰ μὲν οὖν τὰ ἐληλεγμένα ἢ μᾶλλον ἐκτεθειμένα μὴ κοινῇ διωμολογημένα ἐτύγχανον ὄντα, ἀλλ' εἶχέ τινα ἀμφισβήτησιν, πᾶσαν ἂν ὑμῖν τὴν πολιτικὴν καὶ ἱερατικὴν νομοθεσίαν συγκινήσας συνήγαγον. ἐπεὶ δὲ γυμνὰ τὰ πράγματα ἔκκειται καὶ ὁ τῶν κατηγορημάτων ἀκούσας εὐθύς τε ταῦτα τῷ κατηγορηθέντι ἐπιμαρτύρεται καὶ οὐκ ἔχει, τίσιν ἄλλοις τὸ τούτων ἐξισώσειε μέγεθος, τάς τε τιμωρίας οὐκ ἀγνοεῖ, ἃς ἑκάστοις τούτων οἱ νομοθέται προσήρμοσαν; διὰ ταῦτα καὶ αὐτὸς τὰ πλείω τῶν νόμων καὶ τῶν κανόνων παρεὶς ὀλίγα ἄττα ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ὑμῖν ἀπομνημονεύσας τῶν δέλτων ἐκεῖνο σαφὲς ὑμῖν παραστήσω, ὅτι τοσούτων νόμων ἀποτρεπόντων καὶ ὁντιναοῦν τοῖς τοιούτοις συναναφύρεσθαι δόγμασι καὶ τοσούτων ἐφεστηκότων κινδύνων τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν, ἀμφοῖν ὁ δεσπότης καταπεφρόνηκε, κατὰ πολλὴν ὑπεροψίαν ἑκατέρων τῶν νόμων τοῖς ἐπιρρήτοις τελούμενος. Αὐτίκα τοίνυν ὁ πολιτικὸς νόμος πᾶσαν παρρησίας θύραν ἐπιζυγοῖ τοῖς ὅσοι τὰς ἐναντίας ἡμῖν δόξας πρεσβεύουσιν. ἀλλ' ὅ γε δεσπότης καὶ ἐπεζευγμένας τὰς θύρας διέστησεν καὶ ὥσπερ τι ἔρυμα καρτερὸν ἀφελὼν ὁδὸν τῷ πονηρῷ ῥεύματι δέδωκε· καὶ ξύμπασα μικροῦ δεῖν ἡ τῆς ἐκκλησίας κατεκλύσθη περιοχή, ἔξωθέν τε ἀκατασχέτως ἐπιρρεόντων τῶν ποταμῶν καὶ πατριαρχικῆς πηγῆς ἔσωθεν τῶν διεφθαρμένων δοξῶν ἀναβλυζούσης τὰ νάματα. ὁ τοίνυν νόμος τῷ μὲν ἀρχιερεῖ περὶ τῶν οὕτως ὑπειλημμένων ταῦτα παρακελεύεται· ἡμῖν δὲ περὶ ἐκείνου προτρέπεται ἀπείργειν αὐτῷ τὴν εἰς τὰς θείας αὐλὰς ἐπιδημίαν καὶ παρρησίαν. ὁ δ' αὐτὸς καὶ τὰ Πορφυρίου καίεσθαι προστάττει συγγράμματα. ἀλλ' ὁ μέγας δεσπότης εἴ τί που τῶν ἐκείνου ἡμίφλεκτον εἶδε καὶ παρὰ τῇ αἰθάλῃ κρυπτόμενον, ἐπιμελέστερον ἀνεγνώκει, καὶ ὅσα τὸ πῦρ ἐλυμήνατο, ταῦτα οὗτος ἀνεζωπύρησε καὶ τὴν πᾶσαν ἐκείνου βίβλον ἐκαινοποίησε. καὶ ἐπανήγαγεν αὖθις ἡμῖν τὰς βακχείας, τὰς ἁγιστείας, τὰ ὄργια, τὰ μυστήρια, τὰς κατοχάς, τὰς τελετάς, τὴν πᾶσαν τῶν δαιμόνων διαπλοκὴν ὥστε πάλιν δευτέρας ἡμῖν δεηθῆναι πυρκαϊᾶς, ἵν' αὖθις ἀναλωθῇ τὰ τοῦ νέου Πορφυρίου πονήματα. καὶ τὰ μὲν κέκαυται, τὰ δ' ἔτι λείπεται, ζώπυρα τῶν ἐκείνου κακῶν καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀρχιερέως ψυχῆς ὑπομνήματα. καὶ ὁ μὲν νόμος τοὺς τὰ Νεστορίου φρονεῖν βουλομένους ἐπισκόπους μὲν ὄντας τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐξωθεῖ, τοῖς δὲ τοῦ ἑτέρου λεὼ καὶ ἐπαρᾶσθαι πᾶσι παρακελεύεται. ὁ δὲ θεῖος οὗτος ποιμὴν τὴν δόξαν σβεσθεῖσαν ἀνῆψε λαμπρῶς καὶ τὴν τοῦ κυρίου μητέρα ἐν εὐθύναις αὖθις πεποίηκεν καὶ τοῦ πονηροῦ πνεύματος διὰ τῆς κατόχου τὴν φωνὴν εἰσδεξάμενος ὀδύνας αὐτῇ καὶ πόνους ἐπιμαρτύρεται. καὶ αὖθις τοῖς μὲν τὰ Ἑλλήνων τολμῶσιν ἔγκλημα προστρίβει δημόσιον καὶ τοῖς ἐλευθερίαν τούτοις διδοῦσιν ἔκπτωσιν τῆς ἀξίας ἐπανατείνεται, ὁ δὲ τῆς ἱερωσύνης φωστὴρ τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν τερθρείαν διαλυθεῖσαν συλλέγειν αὖθις ἐπικεχείρηκε καὶ πρῶτος αὐτὸς τελεσθεὶς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις παρανοίγνυσι τὰ μυστήρια, κἂν γὰρ μὴ Πυθῶδε βεβάδικε μηδ' εἰς ∆ωδώνην δεδράμηκε μηδὲ προσέβαλεν τῷ ἠχείῳ τὴν ἀκοήν, ἀλλ' αὐτὸ τὸ μαντεῖον εἰς τὸν θεῖον νεὼν μετεκόμισε· τὴν ζάκορον αὐτὴν καὶ δᾳδοῦχον ἐκ τῶν ∆ελφῶν ἀφελόμενος ἐντὸς τῶν ἀδύτων πεποίηκεν. αὐτὸν τὸν τρίποδα ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μετήνεγκεν· αὐτὸ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ τὴν ἐπίπνοιαν χορηγοῦν ἐπὶ τὸν θεῖον νεὼν ἐφειλκύσατο ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν ∆ελφοῖς στομίου, ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν πλάνης, ἀπὸ τῶν τριόδων καὶ τῶν βαράθρων. τὰς νυκτερινὰς φαντασίας ἡμερινὰς αὐτοψίας πεποίηκεν. ὑπερεῖδε πάντων νόμων, κανόνων, ἐθῶν·