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

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 him excessively and to close your eyes to such a flashing light of refutations. But having added some small thing to my speech, let me turn to the second point, the chapter concerning tyranny. And there is something which I should have said long ago that I have postponed until now, that the patriarch's exile was not improvised by the emperor; for he has done this deed as if based on confessed refutations that have nothing doubtful about them, and he has also gathered you together, not that he might contend about things you do not know, but that he might use you as witnesses against him. Therefore, those of you who are aware of the audacious things done by him and have long cried out against his most monstrous acts, you fulfill the need for witnesses for a good cause; but those of you who will vote to condemn him, you have been allotted judicial dignity. And I will add that which you do not seem to me to be entirely ignorant of, unless you are pretending; for fearing lest the plot should get ahead of the precise investigation, having removed him for a short while he has now brought him back. Therefore, the indictment concerning heresy has been examined by us to this extent. But since we also prosecute the man for tyranny, or rather sacrilege, and we have set down this second chapter above in the simple enumeration, as by way of a preliminary statement, let this very point now be examined, or rather, demonstrated to you all. And I think that, even if I myself work out nothing more in my speech, the conscience in all of you lies there beyond deception, and there is no one at all, neither of Greeks nor barbarians, neither of the learned nor indeed of the unlearned, not of the senatorial council, not of those enrolled among the clergy, who does not know that the high priest at that time surpassed all tyrants, overleaped all audacity, despised everything holy, and was simply mad and utterly disregarded the saints. And so that my speech may enter upon a path and order, I wish to remind you how matters stood at that time, so that you may consider each thing in relation to those past times. For the affairs of the Romans, as you know, were then tossed on the waves, as if on a great sea with opposing currents and crashing waves and winds. And the helmsman, to use more kindly words for him out of respect for his office, had not at all mastered the art of ruling, and the ship of the whole world had all but sunk to the sea with all hands, had not God ordained an incredible and paradoxical change in affairs. For something happened among the most wondrous of things, for which, though I seek, I find no parallel; for the entire military, so to speak, both those noble from of old and holding their rank by inheritance and those who came from the muster rolls into companies, and both those who had once received commands of armies and those who had marshalled the entire phalanx in wars, rising up from the regions on either side of the world as if from a signal, have run together with insatiable longing and unrestrainable haste to one and the same man, the one before all and over all and above all, for whom no word of praise is sufficient, to whom other things are secondary, who is set apart from other emperors by his pre-eminence. I know that you all understand who the man is, and do not be surprised at me, if I say nothing more; for I have not now chosen to praise, but, as you see, to accuse. But let my speech keep to what follows. For such a movement has not happened in past ages, nor, I think, will it ever happen. nor has anyone so pre-eminent among all and by far standing out above others ever appeared in respect to the science of ruling, which I myself consider the art of arts and the science of sciences. Since, therefore, all the rivers, and all the springs and the streams from all sides have flowed together into the great sea—I mean, of course, the greatest emperor—the city stood in perplexity and all were in suspense at what had happened and held the ruler in suspicion. But when this man, having organized some of those who had been left behind, established them into companies

προδήλως καὶ ἀνακεκαλυμμένως ὁ πατριάρχης ἠσέβηκε. καὶ οὔτε βουλομένοις τισὶν ὑμῶν οὔτε περὶ ἐκείνου σπουδάζουσιν ἔξεστιν ὑπεραπολογεῖσθαι ἐκείνου καὶ πρὸς τοιαύτην ἐλέγχων ἐπιμύειν μαρμαρυγήν. βραχὺ δέ τι τῷ λόγῳ προσθεὶς ἐπὶ τὸ δεύτερον τράπωμαι, τὸ περὶ τῆς τυραννίδος κεφάλαιον. Ἔστι δὲ ὃ πάλαι δέον ἐρεῖν εἰς τόδε ἀνεβαλόμην, ὅτι μὴ ἐσχεδίασται τῷ βασιλεῖ ἡ τοῦ πατριάρχου ὑπερορία· ὡς γὰρ ἐπὶ ὡμολογημένοις ἐλέγχοις καὶ οὐδὲν ἀμφίβολον ἔχουσιν τὸ πρᾶγμα πεποίηται καὶ ὑμᾶς δὲ συνηγήοχεν, οὐχ ἵνα περὶ ὧν οὐχ ἴστε διαγωνίσηται, ἀλλ' ἵν' ὑμῖν μάρτυσι κατ' αὐτοῦ χρήσηται. οἷς μὲν οὖν σύνιστε ἐκείνῳ τὰ τετολμημένα καὶ πάλαι τῶν ἀτοπωτάτων κατεβοᾶτε, μαρτύρων χρείαν πληροῦτε τῷ καλῷ· οἷς δὲ καταψηφιεῖσθε ἐκείνου, δικαστικὴν ἀξίαν κεκλήρωσθε. προσθήσω δὲ ὅπερ οὐδ' ὑμεῖς πάντῃ ἐοίκατέ μοι ἀγνοεῖν, εἰ μὴ προσποιεῖσθε· δεδοικὼς γὰρ μὴ φθάσῃ ἡ ἐπιβουλὴ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν, βραχύ τι μεταστήσας νῦν ἐπανήγαγεν. Ἡ μὲν οὖν περὶ τῆς αἱρέσεως γραφὴ ἐς τοσοῦτον ἡμῖν ἐξήτασται. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τυραννίδος εἴτ' οὖν καθοσιώσεως τὸν ἄνδρα διώκομεν, καὶ δεύτερον τοῦτο κεφάλαιον ὡς ἐν προκατασκευῆς λόγῳ ἐν τῇ ψιλῇ ἀπαριθμήσει ἄνω τεθείκαμεν, αὐτὸ τοῦτο αὖθις ἐξεταζέσθω, μᾶλλον δὲ δεικνύσθω πᾶσιν ὑμῖν. οἶμαι δὲ ὡς, εἰ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτὸς πλέον τῷ λόγῳ προσεξεργάσομαι, τό τε συνειδὸς πᾶσιν ὑμῖν ἀπαραλόγιστον ἔγκειται, καὶ οὐδείς ἐστι τῶν ἀπάντων, οὔθ' Ἑλλήνων οὔτε βαρβάρων οὔτε λογίων οὔτε μὴν ἀμαθῶν, οὐ τῶν τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς, οὐ τῶν ἐν κλήρῳ κατειλεγμένων, ὃς οὐκ οἶδε τὸν ἀρχιερέα τηνικαῦτα πάντας μὲν τυράννους ὑπερβεβληκότα, ἅπαν δὲ θράσος ὑπερπηδήσαντα, παντὸς δὲ ὁσίου καταφρονήσαντα καὶ ἀτεχνῶς μανέντα καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀκριβῶς κατολιγωρήσαντα. καὶ ἵνα γε εἰς ὁδὸν καὶ τάξιν ὁ λόγος ἐμβαίνῃ, ἀναμνῆσαι ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, ὅπως εἶχε τηνικαῦτα τὰ πράγματα, ἵνα πρὸς τοὺς πεπτωκότας καιροὺς ἕκαστα θεωρῆτε. Ἐκυμαίνετο μέν, ὡς ἴστε, τότε τὰ Ῥωμαίων πράγματα ὥσπερ ἐν πελάγει πολλῷ καὶ ῥευμάτων ἐναντιώσεσι καὶ ῥοθίοις καὶ πνεύμασι. καὶ ὁ κυβερνήτης, ἵνα φειδοῖ τῆς ἀρχῆς φιλανθρωποτέροις αὐτῷ λόγοις χρήσωμαι, οὐ πάνυ τι τὴν ἀρχικὴν ἐπιστήμην ἠκριβωκώς, ἡ δὲ παγκόσμιος ὁλκὰς μικροῦ δεῖν αὔτανδρος τῇ θαλάττῃ καταδεδύκει, εἰ μὴ μεταβολὴν ἄπιστον καὶ παράδοξον ὁ θεὸς τοῖς πράγμασιν ἐπρυτάνευσε. γίνεται γάρ τι πρᾶγμα τῶν πάνυ θαυμαζομένων καὶ οὗ ζητῶν οὐχ εὑρίσκω παράδειγμα· τὸ γὰρ στρατιωτικὸν ὡς εἰπεῖν ἅπαν, ὅσον τε ἄνωθεν εὐγενὲς καὶ πατρόθεν ἔχον τὴν τάξιν καὶ ὅσον ἐκ καταλόγων εἰς λόχους ἐτέλεσεν, οἵ τε τῶν στρατοπέδων τὰς ἀρχὰς εἰληφότες ποτὲ καὶ οἱ τὴν ὅλην ἐν πολέμοις τάξαντες φάλαγγα, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἑκατέρωθεν τῆς οἰκουμένης τμημάτων ἀπαναστάντες ὥσπερ ἀπὸ συνθήματος πρὸς ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀπλήστῳ πόθῳ καὶ δρόμοις ἀκατασχέτοις συνδεδραμήκασι, τὸν πρὸ πάντων καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι καὶ ὑπὲρ πάντας, ᾧ μηδέν ἐστι πρὸς εὐφημίας λόγον ἀρκοῦν, οὗ τἆλλα δεύτερα, ὃς τῶν ἄλλων βασιλέων ἐξῄρηται καθ' ὑπεροχήν. οἶδ' ὅτι πάντες τὸν ἄνδρα συνίετε, καί με μὴ θαυμάζητε, εἰ μηδέν τι πλέον ἐρῶ· οὐ γὰρ ἐγκωμιάζειν νυνὶ προῄρημαι, ἀλλ', ὡς ὁρᾶτε, κατηγορεῖν. ὁ δὲ λόγος ἐχέσθω τῶν ἐφεξῆς. κίνησις γὰρ τοιαύτη οὔτε τὸν ἄνω αἰῶνα γέγονεν οὔτ' οἶμαι γενήσεται πώποτε· οὔτε τις τῶν ἁπάντων ἔκκριτος οὕτως καὶ κατὰ πολὺ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπερανεστηκὼς πρὸς τὴν βασίλειον ἐπιστήμην ὤφθη ποτέ, ἣν τέχνην ἐγὡ τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἐπιστημῶν τίθεμαι. Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν πάντες μὲν ποταμοί, πᾶσαι δὲ πηγαὶ καὶ τὰ πανταχόθεν ῥεύματα εἰς τὴν μεγάλην συνερρυήκασι θάλατταν, φημὶ δὴ τὸν μέγιστον αὐτοκράτορα, ἐν ἀπορίᾳ ἡ πόλις εἱστήκει καὶ πάντες ἦσαν ἐπὶ τῷ γενομένῳ μετέωροι καὶ τὸν κρατοῦντα εἶχον δι' ὑποψίας. ἐπεὶ δὲ οὗτος τῶν περιλελειμμένων τινὰς συγκροτήσας εἰς λόχους κατέστησε