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
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 again it sent forth another voice: "Every man is a heretic, who has appeared to turn aside even by a small example from the dogma of the catholic church or from the straight path." But he out-shouts this with his own voice, and his ears were stopped as if by a thick wax plug, and none of the words flowed in past the membrane, but babbled somewhere right there, being wrapped in the cavity of the organ of sense. Therefore, learning profane things, he taught them, and seeing them, he marveled, and he considered the activity of the spirits, or rather the deception and wonder-working, a divine utterance, and he considered the mantic procession a spiritual worship and the profane rite an honorable festival, and not by a small example of some dogma of the church had he gone astray, but he had changed the entire form of piety, not by altering the form of prayer nor by changing his attire, but by adhering to Hellenic customs and transferring himself from the church to the stage. And the law indeed closes off a place of prayer to all heretics, and especially to the Manichaeans, whom indeed it expels from every city. But he renews for them the principle of their error, refashioning the female spirit of Montanus and just as Peisistratus brought the mask of Athena to those under his tyranny. And why must I transpose all the laws in this measured treatise, which the lawmakers indeed, being many, placed in many places of the books? I, at least, have presented him to you as one corrupted in the doctrines concerning Christ, by common confession, but you, behold the pillars, that you may know what sort of letters have been inscribed upon them from head to foot against those who are so regarded. Is it perhaps then that the civil law is bitter and impartial, while the priestly law, on the other hand, flows like a stream of oil without a sound? But this one is indeed much more severe than that one, and while more subtle concerning the precision of customs, it is more abrupt concerning the imposition of punishment. Indeed, it hardly allows a bishop a mother or a sister, so precisely does it scrutinize him. But our great shepherd, having cared less for the canon, approached the new Eriphyle and new Sappho or Diotima or Aspasia or Pythagorean Theano without restraint, or rather he had brought her forcibly within his own sanctuaries, just as Saul did the ventriloquist, not to bring up Samuel from below—for that would have been a lesser horror—but to display a material spirit from the unseen and to lay bare for him some of the secret things, so that he might be another Paul, an earthly one, not on high, of the earth, but not of heaven, an eyewitness of the unseen things and a hearer of the unspoken things. In vain, therefore, does the much-suffering Athanasius also impose in one of his synodical letters, to act with the counsel of all according to the divinely-inspired oracles and to make the examination concerning all things to be done with all precision. For he was far from consulting with some of the wiser men about this new procession of mysteries; who, having emulated the Pythagorean life, used himself as a rule for the partaking of evil and with the two masters of ceremonies, he served as torch-bearer for this new rite, daring without restraint things which by most of the Greeks were worshipped in darkness. And while most of the ancient oracles have been forgotten, the things of the new prophetess, just as the astrology of the Egyptians before, have been inscribed as if on bronze pillars. And the oracles and writings pertaining to piety, but which have been rendered questionable by the fathers, the secret book of Elijah, the book of Jubilees, the Shepherd, the life of Adam, are set aside and separated from the catalogue of the acknowledged books; but the great father, if some silly and licentious woman, driven by a material spirit, simply so
πάντων ὁμοίως καταπεφρόνηκεν, καίτοι ὥσπερ τοῖς ὠσὶν αὐτοῦ ἐφεστηκὼς ὁ νόμος ἐβόα· "μηδεὶς τὰ βέβηλα διδασκέτω ἢ μανθανέτω".
καὶ πάλιν ἑτέραν ἠφίει φωνήν' "αἱρετικὸς δὲ πᾶς, ὃς καὶ μικρῷ ὑποδείγματι παρὰ τὸ τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας δόγμα ἢ τῆς εὐθείας
ἐφάνη παρατραπείς." ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν ὑπερηχεῖ τούτῳ τὴν οἰκείαν φωνήν, τῷ δὲ ἐβέβυστο τὰ ὦτα ὥσπερ ὑπὸ κυψέλῃ παχείᾳ καὶ οὐδεὶς
τῶν λόγων εἰσέρρει παρὰ τὴν μήνιγγα, ἀλλ' αὐτοῦ που ἐθυραύλει ἐνειλούμενος τῇ τοῦ αἰσθητηρίου κοιλότητι. ὅθεν τὰ βέβηλα μανθάνων
ἐδίδασκε καὶ ὁρῶν ἀπεθαύμαζε, καὶ τὴν τῶν πνευμάτων ἐνέργειαν, μᾶλλον δὲ πλάνην καὶ τερατείαν, θείαν ἡγεῖτο ὀμφὴν καὶ τὴν
μαντικὴν πομπείαν λατρείαν ἡγεῖτο πνευματικὴν καὶ τὴν βέβηλον τελετὴν ἔντιμον ἑορτὴν, καὶ οὐ βραχεῖ τῷ ὑποδείγματι δόγματός
τινος τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀποπεπλάνητο, ἀλλὰ τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας ἄπαν σχῆμα μετήμειψεν, οὐ τῆς εὐχῆς τὸ εἶδος ἀλλάξας οὐδὲ τὴν περιβολὴν
μεταθείς, ἀλλ' Ἑλληνικοῖς νομίμοις προσθέμενος καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐπὶ τὴν σκηνὴν μεταθέμενος. καὶ ὁ μὲν νόμος καὶ πᾶσι
μὲν αἱρετικοῖς τόπον προσευχῆς ἀποκλείει, τοῖς δέ γε Μανιχαίοις καὶ μάλιστα, οὓς δὴ καὶ πάσης ἐξελᾷ πόλεως. ὁ δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν
αὐτοῖς τῆς πλάνης ἀνανεοῖ, τὸ γυναικεῖον τοῦ Μοντανοῦ πνεῦμα ἀναπλασάμενος καὶ ὥσπερ ὁ Πεισίστρατος τοῖς τυραννουμένοις τὸ
προσωπεῖον ἐπιφέρων τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς. Καὶ τί δεῖ με πάντας μετατιθέναι τοὺς νόμους ἐν τῷ μεμετρημένῳ τούτῳ ξυγγράμματι, οὓς δὴ καὶ
πολλοὺς καὶ πολλαχοῦ τῶν βιβλίων οἱ νομοθετήσαντες ἔθεσαν; ἐγὼ γοῦν ὑμῖν ἐκ κοινῆς διομολογίας διεφθαρμένον αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς
κατὰ Χριστὸν λόγοις παρέστησα, ὑμεῖς δὲ τὰς στήλας θεᾶσθε, ἵν' εἰδῆτε οἷα δὴ ἐνσεσήμανται ταύταις κατὰ τῶν οὕτως ὑπειλημμένων
ἐς πόδας ἐκ κορυφῆς γράμματα. μήποτ' οὖν ὁ μὲν πολιτικὸς νόμος πικρός ἐστιν καὶ αὐθέκαστος, ὁ δέ γε ἱερατικὸς οἷον, ἐλαίου
ῥεῦμα ῥέων ἀψοφητί; ἀλλ' οὗτός γε καὶ μάλιστα βαρύτερος ἐκείνου πολὺ καὶ περὶ μὲν τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῶν ἐθῶν λεπτότερος, περὶ
δὲ τὴν ἐπαγωγὴν τῆς τιμωρίας ἀποτομώτερος. τῷ γοῦν ἐπισκόπῳ μητέρα ἢ ἀδελφὴν μόλις που συγχωρεῖ, οὕτως ἐξακριβοῖ τοῦτον. ἀλλ'
ὁ ἡμέτερος καὶ μέγας ποιμὴν ἧττον τοῦ κανόνος πεφροντικὼς τῇ καινῇ Ἐριφύλῃ καὶ νέᾳ Σαπφοῖ ἢ ∆ιοτίμᾳ ἢ Ἀσπασίᾳ ἢ Πυθαγορικῇ
Θεανοῖ ἀνέδην προσῄει, μᾶλλον δ' ἐκείνην ἐντὸς τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ἀδύτων πεποίητο βιαζόμενος, ὥσπερ τὴν ἐγγαστρίμυθον ὁ Σαούλ, οὐ
τὸν Σαμουὴλ ἀνενεγκεῖν κάτωθεν-ἧττον γὰρ ἦν τοῦτο τὸ δεινόν-ἀλλὰ πνεῦμα ὑλαῖον ἐκ τοῦ ἀφανοῦς ἐπιδείξασθαι καὶ παραγυμνῶσαί
τι τούτῳ τῶν ἀπορρήτων, ἵν' εἴη Παῦλός τις ἄλλος ἐπιχθόνιος, οὐ μετέωρος, ἔγγειος, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐπουράνιος, τῶν ἀθεάτων αὐτόπτης
καὶ τῶν ἀρρήτων αὐτήκοος. μάτην ἄρα τούτῳ καὶ ὁ πολύαθλος Ἀθανάσιος ἐν μιᾷ τῶν συνοδικῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπάγει ἐπιστολῶν, μετὰ βουλῆς
πάντων πράττειν κατὰ τὰ θεόπνευστα λόγια καὶ μετὰ πάσης ἀκριβείας τὴν ἐφ' ἅπασι τοῖς πρακτέοις ποιεῖσθαι διάσκεψιν. πολλοῦ
γὰρ ἐδέησε τούτῳ τῶν σοφωτέρων ἐνίοις συνδιασκέψασθαι περὶ τῆς καινῆς ταύτης πομπείας τῶν μυστηρίων· ὅς γε Πυθαγόρειον βίον
ἐζηλωκὼς ἑαυτῷ γνώμονι πρὸς τὴν μετάληψιν ἐχρήσατο τοῦ κακοῦ καὶ σὺν τοῖς δυσὶ τελετάρχαις τῇ καινῇ ταύτῃ ἐδᾳδούχησε τελετῇ,
τολμήσας ἀνέδην ἃ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τοῖς πλείοσιν ὑπὸ σκότῳ τεθρήσκευτο. καὶ τῶν μὲν πάλαι χρησμῶν οἱ πλείους διέλαθον, τὰ δὲ τῆς
καινῆς μαντῳδοῦ, ὥσπερ ἡ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀστρολογία τὸ πρότερον, ἐν χαλκαῖς καθαπερεὶ στήλαις ἐνεσημάνθησαν. Καὶ τὰ μὲν εὐσεβείας
ἐχόμενα λόγια καὶ συγγράμματα, ἀμφισβητήσιμα δὲ τοῖς πατράσι καθεστηκότα, ἡ τοῦ Ἠλίου βίβλος ἀπόρρητος, ἡ λεπτὴ Γένεσις, ὁ
Ποιμήν, ὁ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ βίος, τοῦ καταλόγου τῶν διωμολογημένων ἀθετεῖται καὶ ἀποκρίνεται· ὁ δὲ μέγας πατήρ, εἴ τι φλύαρον καὶ ἀσελγὲς
γύναιον ὑλικῷ πνεύματι ἐλαυνόμενον ἁπλῶς οὕτως
