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

being torn apart. But Pilate sat judging my divinely-moved emperor, the Lord's anointed, who was being considered, not hesitating, not washing his hands. And the murderers stood around in a circle, one sharpening a javelin, another drawing a sword, another asking to put on a breastplate; and nowhere was Peter to cut off Malchus, or any other more fervent person arming his right hand against Pilate himself. And a deliberation concerning the emperor was proposed; for he was equally hated by the two emperors. He wishes, therefore, to depose the one within at once, and to bar the entrance to the one far away, as one would bar the rising of the light to the sun, so that he might either be tyrant himself or appoint the one who would be tyrant. Let not the councilors send their tongues there, nor move their tongue, as if everything had been diligently arranged by him on behalf of the one now ruling; rather, I think, everything was set in motion against that one. For when his rule was in doubt, he considered nothing about him; but when he was clearly permitted to be emperor and the palace was open and accessible to him, God having removed every obstacle, what was the haste then? For he already had everything. But my argument concerning his rule is superfluous; for even if we concede what is not so, the master is not yet acquitted of impiety. For he raged against the emperor and attempted to depose the sovereign and, having attempted, he dared. And be not at all displeased with me, O emperor, if I speak as if about the previous emperor; for from this you appear more wondrous, because God, choosing you while another directed the empire, brought you in instead. The argument, therefore, has no contradiction, even if someone should wish to be exceedingly zealous for him. But see what follows. For since the city knew the emperors, the one staying at home within, and the other from without driving in under divine impulse, in whom they also had more courage and placed their hopes, they dared nothing more, but were content with the decisions, and neither any of those in authority nor any of the artisans and laborers disturbed any of the plans; but each sat at home, yielding the events to God. But the divine master, having assembled a company of robbers and appointed them as spearmen and stone-throwers, and having stripped the monastic cloak from two—oh, the audacity, oh, the insolence—and having all but put the swords in his hand, he urges first all those in authority to march against that man, and then to gather the rest of the common multitude. And as many as did not wish to, but chose to live quietly, for these he ordered to make their houses ruins and to heap the dust from there upon them and not to spare them down to the foundations. From this, what terrible thing was not done? What of the most monstrous things was not accomplished? Houses were overturned, guards were besieged; some were killed for resisting, others immediately submitted. And all things were full of tumult and confusion, and the city stood in suspense, thinking the affair was a secular capture. For the great luminary had not yet risen, for otherwise all the mist would have been immediately dispersed. But the father, hearing this, rejoiced. And I was reminded of Nero and those times, for he too had done something of this sort, and having deliberately thrown fire into the city, he considered the shapes of the burning things a game. And he also threatened if anyone did not quickly choose to be a co-tyrant with him. But when he had the administration concerning this, having immediately laid aside the priestly dignity, he inclined his brow toward the tyrannical, and establishes his guise as a royal priesthood, beginning his tyranny with solemn names. Therefore, there were immediate appointments and distributions of offices. So he appoints one over the people, entrusts the authority of the sea to another, and to another he entrusts the countryside, and he invests himself with the entire dignity of an emperor; and in a little while he was about to be crowned with a diadem and to go about everywhere wearing a crown. But when all things had been set right and arranged by him, he also sends those

διαφορούμενος. ὁ δὲ Πιλᾶτος κρίνων ἐκάθητο τὸν ἐμὸν θεοκίνητον καὶ χριστὸν κυρίου περινοούμενον αὐτοκράτορα, οὐκ ἀμφιβάλλων, οὐ τὰς χεῖρας ἀπονιπτόμενος. οἱ δὲ φονεῖς κύκλῳ περιεστήκεσαν, ὁ μὲν παλτὸν θήγων, ὁ δὲ ξίφος ἀπογυμνῶν, ὁ δ' ἐπαιτῶν ἵνα ἐνάψηται θώρακα· καὶ οὐδαμοῦ Πέτρος ἵνα τὸν Μάλχον ἐκτέμῃ, ἢ εἴ τις ἄλλος θερμότερος ἐπὶ τὸν Πιλᾶτον αὐτὸν ὁπλίζων τὴν δεξιάν. σκέψις δὲ περὶ βασιλέως προὐτίθετο· ἐπίσης γὰρ τοῖς δυσὶν αὐτοκράτορσιν ἀπηχθάνετο. βούλεται οὖν τὸν μὲν ἐντὸς εὐθὺς καθελεῖν, τῷ δὲ πόρρω ἀπεῖρξαι τὴν εἴσοδον ὥσπερ ἡλίῳ τὴν ἀνατολὴν τοῦ φωτός, ἵν' ἢ αὐτὸς τυραννήσῃ ἢ χειροτονήσῃ τὸν τυραννεύσοντα. μὴ πεμπέτωσαν ἐκεῖ τὰς γλώσσας οἱ βουληφόροι μηδὲ τὴν γλῶτταν κινείτωσαν, ὡς ὑπὲρ τοῦ νῦν κρατοῦντος αὐτῷ τὸ πᾶν διεσπούδαστο· μᾶλλον μὲν οἶμαι κατ' ἐκείνου τὸ πᾶν συγκεκίνητο. Ὅτε μὲν γὰρ ἀμφίβολον αὐτῷ τὸ κρατεῖν, οὐδὲν περὶ αὐτοῦ διεσκέψατο· ὅτε δὲ βασιλεύειν καθαρῶς ἐπετέτραπτο καὶ ἦν αὐτῷ ἄνετά τε καὶ βάσιμα τὰ βασίλεια τοῦ θεοῦ πᾶν ἀφελομένου ἐμπόδιον, τίς ἡ τηνικαῦτα σπουδή; ἤδη γὰρ εἶχε τὸ πᾶν. ἀλλ' ἐμοὶ ἐκ περιουσίας ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὸ κρατεῖν· κἂν γὰρ τὸ μὴ ὂν συγχωρήσωμεν, οὔπω τῆς καθοσιώσεως ὁ δεσπότης ἐξῄρηται. κατὰ γὰρ βασιλέως ἐλύττησε καὶ καθελεῖν αὐτοκράτορα ἐπεχείρησε καὶ ἐπιχειρήσας τετόλμηκε. καί μοι μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῇς, ὦ βασιλεῦ, εἰ ὡς περὶ βασιλέως τοῦ φθάσαντος διαλέγομαι· ἐντεῦθεν γὰρ σὺ φαίνῃ θαυμασιώτερος, ὅτι τὴν βασιλείαν ἑτέρου ἰθύνοντος σὲ προελόμενος ἀντεισήνεγκεν ὁ θεός. οὐκ ἔχει τοίνυν οὐδεμίαν ἀντιλογίαν ὁ λόγος, κἂν πάνυ τις ἐκείνου ὑπερσπουδάζειν ἐθέλοι. ἀλλ' ὁρᾶτε τὰ ἐφεξῆς. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἡ πόλις τοὺς αὐτοκράτορας ᾔδεισαν, τὸν μὲν οἰκουρούμενον ἔνδον, τὸν δ' ἔξωθεν ὑπὸ θείῳ κινήματι εἰσελαύνοντα, ᾧ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐθάρσουν καὶ τὰς ἐλπίδας ἐσάλευον, οὐδέν τι πλέον εἶχον τολμᾶν, ἀλλ' ἠγάπων τὰ δόξαντα, καὶ οὔτε τῶν ἐν τέλει οὐδεὶς οὔθ' ὅσοι αὐτουργοὶ καὶ χειρώνακτες παρεκίνουν τι τῶν βεβουλευμένων· ἀλλ' ἕκαστος οἴκοι καθῆστο, τῶν πραττομένων παραχωροῦντες θεῷ. ὁ δέ γε θεῖος δεσπότης λόχον λῃστρικὸν συγκροτήσας αἰχμοφόρους τε τούτους ἀποδείξας καὶ λιθοβόλους, δύο δὲ καὶ τὸ μοναχικὸν περιδύσας τριβώνιον-ὢ τῆς τόλμης, ὢ τῆς θρασύτητος-καὶ μονονοὺ τὰ ξίφη ἐγχειρίσας αὐτῷ προτρέπεται πρῶτον μὲν ἅπαντας τοὺς ἐν τέλει εἰς ἐκεῖνον ἐλᾶν, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὸ ἄλλο συναγεῖραι δημοτικὸν πλῆθος. ὅσοι δὲ μὴ βούλοιντο, ἀλλ' ἀπραγμόνως αἱροῖντο ζῆν, τούτοις ἐρείπια τὰς οἰκίας ποιεῖν καὶ ἐπιφορεῖν αὐτοῖς τὸν ἐκεῖθεν χοῦν καὶ ἄχρι θεμελίων μὴ φείδεσθαι. ἐντεῦθεν τί μὲν τῶν δεινῶν οὐκ ἐπράττετο; τί δὲ τῶν ἀτοπωτάτων οὐκ ἐτελεῖτο; κατεστρέφοντο οἶκοι, ἐπολιορκοῦντο οἱ φύλακες· οἱ μὲν ἐκτείνοντο ἀντιπράττοντες, οἱ δ' αὐτόθεν ὑπέκυπτον. καὶ πάντα ἦν θορύβου καὶ κλόνου μεστά, ἡ δὲ πόλις εἱστήκει μετέωρος, κοσμικὴν ἅλωσιν τὸ πρᾶγμα οἰομένη. οὔπω γὰρ ὁ μέγας ἀνατετάλκει φωστήρ, ἦ γὰρ ἂν αὐτόθεν πᾶσα διεσκεδάσθη ἀχλύς. ὁ δὲ πατὴρ ἀκούων ἠγάλλετο. κἀγὼ ἀνεμιμνησκόμην τοῦ Νέρωνος καὶ τῶν τότε καιρῶν, τοιοῦτον γάρ τι κἀκεῖνος ἐπεποιήκει, καὶ πῦρ ἐξεπίτηδες ἐμβαλὼν τῇ πόλει, παιδιὰν ἡγεῖτο τῶν ἐμπιπραμένων τὰ σχήματα. ὁ δὲ καὶ ἠπείλει εἴ τις μὴ ταχέως ἐκεῖνῳ συντυραννεῖν εἵλετο. ἐπεὶ δὲ τὴν περὶ τούτου εἶχε διοίκησιν, τὴν ἱερατικὴν ἀξίαν εὐθὺς ἀποθέμενος ἐπὶ τὴν τυραννικὴν ἀπενενεύκει ὀφρὺν καὶ βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα τὸ σχῆμα καθίστησι μετὰ σεμνῶν ὀνομάτων τῆς τυραννίδος ἀρχόμενος. προχειρίσεις οὖν εὐθὺς καὶ ἀξιωμάτων διανομαί. τὸν μὲν οὖν τοῦ δήμου προΐστησι, τῷ δὲ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐγχειρίζει τὴν ἐξουσίαν, τῷ δὲ ἐμπιστεύει τὰ ὕπαιθρα καὶ τὸ ξύμπαν βασιλέως ἑαυτῷ ἀξίωμα περιτίθησιν· ἔμελλε δ' ὅσον ὀλίγον ταινιωθήσεσθαί τε καὶ πανταχῇ στεφηφόρος περιελεύσεσθαι. Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάντα αὐτῷ κατώρθωτο καὶ διῴκητο, πέμπει καὶ τοὺς