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

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 the imperial piety and of two emperors, he overthrew one, but was not able to overthrow the other. For he was not fighting against that one, but was making a truce with you, our great emperor. For both were emperors and leaders and at the same time pious. He was therefore convicted of plotting and at the same time committing the profanation against both; for having attacked one, he destroyed him, but you, for the sake of both, yourself and no less him, have resisted this man and you expose his wickedness and you are restoring the laws to us and you judge with both pontifical and political authority. So much, then, concerning the profanation. But concerning the tyranny, who of all men would dispute it? For just as those who mold clay statues then set them up in the theaters, so indeed that man, having molded or remolded himself and having altered his brow and arranged a haughty scene for himself, gathered armed men for himself in the very inner sanctuaries, and the sword-bearer was nearby and on either side the spearmen and in the middle of all of them the new Samuel, practically wearing an ephod and not with his head bound with a miter, but openly playing the tyrant and contemplating the imperial crown. And if anyone of those who do not know should wonder and disbelieve, let him look, as at a burned ship, at the half-burnt part of the keel or the soot-covered forestays and sails. What are these? I mean the remnants of his honors; for the embers of the ordination from there still remain. And that divine Samuel, since God had separated the priesthood and the kingship, and placed the one over public affairs, but subjected the care of souls to the other, no longer opposed Saul nor, as if deprived of the right to rule, was he resentful and displeased, but the son of Hannah withdrew and submitted to that son of Kish. But our great master dared to rule straightway and attempted to join together things that had been separated; and of the reigning emperors, he drove one from the Roman chariot, and the other, if the Lord had not helped me, almost—but I do not wish to say anything inappropriate.

You, therefore, either have not paid attention to the canons of the apostles or, having paid attention, have rashly despised them, but I will quietly read to you the sixth chapter. For it is as follows: "Let a bishop or presbyter or deacon not take up worldly cares; but if he does, let him be deposed." Compare, then, your actions with the canon, and if they seem to fit, do not be displeased at the deposition; but if it appears otherwise, let the penalty be forgiven you. But I, even if I speak a paradoxical word, say that your actions do not even fit the canon, not because they fall short, but because they exceed it. For I think the lawgivers understood worldly cares to be the least ones and those that preside over particular matters; but your affair has been seen as a universal or super-cosmic care. For what is more troublesome than tyranny or what is more bothersome or meddlesome than to plot against emperors? And have you not engaged in both? Or did the argument above flow in vain, demonstrating everything? Did you not attempt to seize everything like some brood and to gather it up like abandoned eggs and to attach to yourself both the land and the sea? Were you not arming some, disguising others, and entrusting to others to guard the streets, to surround the narrow passages, to encircle the walls, to ready the triremes, to <prepare> the rams? Are these, then, worldly affairs or inactivity and the care of souls? If, then, it is the latter, show it and you will be freed from the cleansing potion; but if not, like Socrates of old, be filled with the hemlock and taking the cup, drink of the mixture to the bottom. For a certain charge has become common to you and him; for you both introduced new things to the

καινοτομῆσαν ἀξίαν καὶ κάτω γενήσεσθαι. ἐκεῖ μὲν οὖν ὁ ἑωσφόρος κατὰ τῆς πρώτης ἐλύττησεν ἀγαθότητος, ἐνταῦθα δὲ ὁ ἑσπέριος κατὰ τῆς βασιλικῆς ἐπικεχείρηκεν ὁσιότητος καὶ δυοῖν βασιλέων τὸν μὲν καθεῖλε, τὸν δὲ ἑλεῖν οὐ δεδύνητο. οὐ γὰρ ἐκείνῳ μὲν ἐμάχετο, σοὶ δὲ τῷ μεγάλῳ ἡμῶν ἐσπένδετο αὐτοκράτορι. ἄμφω γὰρ ἤτην αὐτοκράτορέ τε καὶ ἀρχηγὼ καὶ ἅμα ὁσίω. ἀμφοῖν οὖν ἑαλώκει βουλεύσας ἅμα καὶ πράξας τὴν καθοσίωσιν· τὸν μὲν οὖν ἐπιχειρήσας ἀνῄρηκε, σὺ δὲ ἀμφοῖν εἵνεκα, σαυτοῦ τε καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐκείνου, πρὸς τοῦτον ἀντήρκεσας καὶ τὴν πονηρίαν δημοσιεύεις καὶ τοὺς νόμους ἐπανάγεις ἡμῖν καὶ μετὰ τῆς ἀρχιερατικῆς καὶ πολιτικῆς δικάζεις ῥοπῆς. Τὸ μὲν οὖν περὶ τῆς καθοσιώσεως οὕτως. περὶ δέ γε τῆς τυραννίδος τίς ἂν τῶν πάντων ἀμφισβητήσειεν; ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ τοὺς πηλίνους πλάττοντες ἀνδριάντας ἔπειτα ἐν τοῖς θεάτροις ἱστῶσιν, οὕτω δὴ κἀκεῖνος ἑαυτὸν πλάσας ἢ μεταπλάσας καὶ τὴν ὀφρὺν μεταλλάξας καὶ σοβαρὰν ἑαυτῷ σκηνὴν διαθέμενος ἐν αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἀδύτοις τοὺ ὁπλίτας ἑαυτῷ συνεστήσατο, καὶ ὁ μαχαιροφόρος ἐγγύθεν καὶ ἑκατέρωθεν οἱ δορατοφόροι καὶ μέσος ἁπάντων ὁ νέος Σαμουὴλ μονονοὺκ αἴρων ἐφοὺδ οὐδὲ μίτρᾳ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀναδεδεμένος, ἀλλὰ τυραννῶν ἄντικρυς καὶ τὴν βασιλικὴν στεφάνην περινοούμενος. εἰ δέ τις τῶν οὐκ εἰδότων θαυμάζοι καὶ διαπιστοίη, ὥσπερ τῆς καταφλεχθείσης νεὼς ὁράτω μέρος τῆς τρόπεως ἡμίφλεκτον ἢ τοὺς προτόνους καὶ τὰ ἱστία κατῃθαλωμένα. ποῖα ταῦτα; φημὶ τὰ ὑπολείμματα τῶν ἐκείνου τιμῶν· ἔτι γὰρ τῆς ἐκεῖεν χειροτονίας μεμενήκασι ζώπυρα. καὶ ὁ μὲν θεῖος ἐκεῖνος Σαμουήλ, ἐπειδὴ διεῖλεν ὁ θεὸς ἱερωσύνην καὶ βασιλείαν καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν δημοσίων τέθεικε, τῇ δὲ τὴν τῶν ψυχῶν ὑπέθηκεν ἐπιμέλειαν, οὐκέτι ἀντέπραττε τῷ Σαοὺλ οὐδ' ὡς ἀφῃρημένος τὸ βασιλεύειν ἀπεδυσπέτει καὶ ἐδυσχέραινεν, ἀλλ' ὑπεχώρει καὶ ὑπεστέλλετο ὁ τῆς Ἄννης υἱὸς τῷ τοῦ Κὶς ἐκείνου παιδί. ὁ δὲ μέγας ἡμῶν δεσπότης αὐτόθεν βασιλεύειν ἐτόλμησε καὶ τὰ διῃρημένα συνάπτειν ἐπικεχείρηκε· καὶ τῶν προεστηκότων αὐτοκρατόρων τὸν μὲν τοῦ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ ἀπεβίβασεν ἄξονος, τὸν δέ, εἰ μὴ κύριος ἀντελάβετό μου, μικροῦ δεῖν-ἀλλ' οὐ βούλομαι οὐδὲν τῶν ἀτόπων ἐρεῖν.

Σὺ μὲν οὖν τοῖς τῶν ἀποστόλων κανόσιν ἢ οὐ προσέσχες ἢ προσσχὼν καταπεφρόνηκας ἰταμῶς, ἐγὼ δὲ τὸ ἕκτον ὑπαναγνώσομαί σοι ἠρέμα κεφάλαιον. ἔχει γὰρ οὕτως· "ἐπίσκοπος ἢ πρεσβύτερος ἢ διάκονος κοσμικὰς φροντίδας μὴ ἀναλαμβανέτω· εἰ δὲ μή, καθαιρείσθω." παράβαλε οὖν τὰ σαυτοῦ τῷ κανόνι, καὶ εἰ μὲν προσαρμόττειν δοκεῖ, μὴ δυσχέραινε τὴν καθαίρεσιν· εἰ δ' ἄλλο τι φαίνεται, συγκεχωρήσθω σοι τὸ ἐπιτίμιον. ἐγὼ δέ, εἰ καὶ παράδοξον ἐρῶ λόγον, οὐδὲ προσαρμόττειν φημὶ τὰ σὰ τῷ κανόνι, οὐχ ὅτι ἐλλείπει, ἀλλ' ὅτι ὑπερβάλλει. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ νομοθέτας κοσμικὰς οἶμαι φροντίδας τὰς τελευταίας ὑπολαβεῖν καὶ ὅσαι μερικῶν πραγμάτων προΐστανται· τὸ δὲ σὸν πρᾶγμα παγκόσμιος ἢ ὑπερκόσμιος ὦπται φροντίς. τί γὰρ τυραννίδος πραγματωδέστερον ἢ τί τοῦ κατὰ βασιλέων ἐπιχειρεῖν ὀχλωδέστερον ἢ πολυπραγμονέστερον; σὺ δὲ οὐκ ἄμφω πεπραγμάτευσαι; ἢ μάτην ἄνω ὁ λόγος ἐρρύη πάντα ἀποδεικνύς; οὐ πάντα ἐπεβάλου καθέξειν ὥσπερ τινὰ νοσσιὰν καὶ ἀρεῖν ὡς καταλελειμμένα ᾠὰ καὶ ἀναρτῆσαι σαυτοῦ καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν; οὐ τοὺς μὲν ὥπλιζες, τοὺς δὲ μετημφίαζες, τοῖς δὲ ἐπέτρεπες τὰς ἀμφόδους τηρεῖν, περιβάλλειν τοὺς στενωπούς, τὰ τείχη κυκλοῦν, τὰς τριήρεις εὐτρεπίζειν, τὰς ἐμβολάς <ἐτοιμάζειν> πότερον οὖν πράγματα ταῦτα ἢ ἀπραγμοσύνη καὶ ἐπιστασία ψυχῶν; εἰ μὲν οὖν τοῦτο, δεῖξον καὶ ἀπαλλαγήσῃ τοῦ καθαρτηρίου πόματος· εἰ δὲ μή, ὥσπερ ὁ Σωκράτης πάλαι ἐμπλήσθητι τοῦ κωνείου καὶ τὸν κρατῆρα λαβὼν ἄχρι τοῦ πυθμένος πίε τοῦ κράματος. κοινὸν γάρ τί σοι πρὸς ἐκεῖνον καθέστηκεν ἔγκλημα· ἄμφω γὰρ καινὰ παρεισήγετε τῷ