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

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 the limbs of Andrew, to whom indeed the church was dedicated, lay hidden somewhere here, or some of his brother Peter, or some of Paul, the great champions of the truth and defenders of piety. And long ago under Nero, the one was crucified, the other was only beheaded; but now under the great father they have been dismembered limb by limb and have not even been granted holy rites. Rather, they are dug up and unearthed and, like the bodies of the accursed, are cast aside and scattered. O, the audacity, or rather, the cruelty! But how might I relate the matter to you more affectingly? For since he demolished the shrines above the ground, he dares also against those beneath the ground. And he breaks them open with iron and unearths the tombs of dead bodies and exposes nature to public view; and he throws up the surrounding earth and scatters the dust into the air. He has destroyed the harmony of the limbs, he has dissolved what was put together. He has changed the form of the body, he has seen what the law forbids. His eyes did not grow numb, he did not blush, he was not immediately confounded at the sight, but just as those who dig up the earth, so he tore apart and moved the limbs that had been laid to rest. Do you see those great tombs, each of which is divided in the middle by a small partition? I take this to be a symbol of unbreakable friendship. For it is either a union and separation of companionship at once, or it signifies a most excellent marriage and a mingling without touching of dearest limbs even after death. And the husband lay in the one part, and the wife in the other, so that being buried together they might also rise together when the trumpet sounds from above. But the initiator of peace and the precise guardian of the ordinances casts an evil eye on this beautiful union even after death, and separates from each other those whom law joined and affection brought together, and alienates their union, and having torn them up from the ground, he has publicly exposed that which not even the sun's ray reaches. He has made the resurrection also doubtful to the great multitude, by reducing the form of the limbs to dust; he has cast an evil eye upon their hopes and has made their confession a matter of dispute. What shall I mourn first? What shall I last bewail? The destruction of the church? The demolition of the sanctuary? The removal of the holy icons? This new tomb-robbing? And then you ask me, for what sort of wrongdoings has the purging drink been mixed for him? For the churches which he destroyed? For the icons which he removed? For the sanctuaries which he razed? For the holy things which he plundered? For the tombs which he dug up? For the bodies which he scattered? For if not even for one of these is it possible to find a sufficient punishment, for all of them by how many deaths should he be slain? For if, for destroying the church alone, he were judged as having committed impiety, would he be acquitted of the charge by adding the rest? But I have been able to find neither a name by which I might call this man here, nor a crime under which I might classify him. But just as if someone seeing a composite creature, like that fabled Chimera, fashioned with many and various heads, and no less divided in its hindquarters, could not say what it is he is seeing—this indeed is what I have experienced here—so too the evil displayed is some multifaceted thing and one could not easily name it. But perhaps someone will say that what has happened is not tomb-robbing, because he neither carried off nor wanted to carry off any of the things lying in the tombs. I do not disagree. For that is despoiling of the dead, but this is clearly tomb-breaking, and just as one who breaks through a wall is a wall-breaker, so one who <breaks through> a tomb would reasonably be called a tomb-breaker. And if he was not under pressing necessity, he is so much the worse, inasmuch as for those who rob tombs in that way, being under pressure furnishes the defense, but here the transgression is without excuse; and even if he still maintains that he was under pressure, I

καὶ τὰ τοῦ ἀποστόλου Λουκᾶ πυρὶ καίεται καὶ εἰς χοῦν ἀναλύεται. δέδοικα μὴ καὶ μαρτύρων ἐνταῦθα κατέκειτο σώματα. φοβοῦμαι μή τι τῶν τοῦ Ἀνδρέου μελῶν ἐνταυθοῖ που κεκρυμμένον ἐλάνθανεν, ᾧ δὴ καὶ ὁ ναὸς καθωσίωτο, μή τι τῶν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Πέτρου, μή τι τῶν τοῦ Παύλου, τῶν μεγάλων τῆς ἀληθείας ἀγωνιστῶν καὶ προμάχων τῆς εὐσεβείας. καὶ πάλαι μὲν ὑπὸ Νέρωνι ὁ μὲν ἐσταυροῦτο, ὁ δὲ ἀπετέμνετο μόνον· νῦν δὲ ὑπὸ τῷ μεγάλῳ πατρὶ κατὰ μέρος διῄρηνται καὶ οὐδὲ τῆς ὁσίας ἠξίωνται. μᾶλλον μὲν οὖν ἀνορύττονται καὶ ἀναχωννύονται καὶ ὥσπερ τινὰ τῶν ἐναγῶν σωμάτων παραρριπτοῦνται καὶ διασπείρονται. ὢ τῆς τόλμης, μᾶλλον δὲ τῆς ὠμότητος. ἀλλὰ πῶς ἂν περιπαθέστερον τὸ πρᾶγμα ὑμῖν διηγήσωμαι; ἐπεὶ γὰρ τὰ ὑπὲρ γῆν καθεῖλεν ἄδυτα, τολμᾷ καὶ κατὰ τῶν ὑπὸ γῆν. καὶ διαιρεῖ σιδήρῳ καὶ ἀναχωννύει θήκας σωμάτων νεκρῶν καὶ δημοσιεύει τὴν φύσιν· καὶ ἀναρριπτεῖ τὸν ἐγκείμενον χοῦν καὶ διασκίδνησι τὴν κόνιν εἰς τὸν ἀέρα. παρέλυσε τὴν τῶν μελῶν ἁρμονίαν, διέλυσε τὰ συντεθειμένα. μετήγαγε τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ σώματος, εἶδεν ἃ νόμος ἀπείργει. τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς οὐκ ἐνάρκησεν, οὐκ ἠρυθρίασεν, οὐκ εὐθὺς ἰδὼν συνεχύθη, ἀλλ' ὥσπερ οἱ διαφοροῦντες τὴν γῆν οὕτω τὰ τεθειμένα μέλη διέσπασέ τε καὶ μετεκόμισεν. Ὁρᾶτε τοὺς μεγάλους τύμβους ἐκείνους, ὧν ἕκαστος βραχεῖ τινι διαφράγματι κατὰ τὸ μέσον διῄρηται; τεκμαίρομαι τοῦτο φιλίας σύμβολον ἀρραγοῦς. ἢ γὰρ ἑταιρίας ἐστὶν ἕνωσις ὁμοῦ καὶ διάζευξις ἢ συζυγίαν ἀρίστην κατηγορεῖ καὶ φιλτάτων μελῶν καὶ μετὰ θάνατον μῖξιν ἀνέπαφον. καὶ ἔκειντο ὲν θατέρῳ μὲν ὁ ἀνὴρ μέρει, ἐν θατέρῳ δὲ ἡ γυνή, ἵν' ὁμοῦ συνταφέντες καὶ συναναστῶσιν ἠχησάσης ἄνω τῆς σάλπιγγος. ἀλλ' ὁ τῆς εἰρήνης μυσταγωγὸς καὶ τῶν θεσμῶν ἀκριβὴς φύλαξ βασκαίνει τῇ καλῇ ταύτῃ συζυγίᾳ καὶ μετὰ θάνατον, καὶ διαιρεῖ ἀπ' ἀλλήλων, οὓς καὶ νόμος συνῆψε καὶ γνώμη συνήγαγε, καὶ ἀπαλλοτριοῖ τὴν ἕνωσιν, καὶ γῆθεν ἀναρρήξας προτέθεικε δημοσίᾳ, ὁπόσον οὐδὲ τοῦ ἡλίου ἐφικνεῖται ἀκτίς. ἀμφίβολον πεποίηκε τῷ πολλῷ πλήθει καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν, εἰς κόνιν ἀναλύσας τὸν σχηματισμὸν τῶν μελῶν· ἐβάσκηνε τούτοις καὶ τῶν ἐλπίδων καὶ ἀμφήριστον τὴν ὁμολογίαν πεποίηκε. τί πρῶτον θρηνήσω; τί δὲ ὕστατον ἀποδύρωμαι; τοῦ ναοῦ τὴν κατάλυσιν; τοῦ ἁγιάσματος τὴν καθαίρεσιν; τὴν τῶν θείων εἰκόνων ἀναίρεσιν; τὴν καινὴν ταύτην τυμβωρυχίαν; εἶτά με ἐρωτᾶτε, ἀντὶ ποίων ἀδικημάτων τὸ καθαρτήριον αὐτῷ πόμα κεκέρασται; ἀντὶ τῶν ναῶν οὓς κατέστρεψεν; ἀντὶ τῶν εἰκόνων ἃς ἀνεῖλεν; ἀντὶ τῶν ἀδύτων ἃ κατηδάφισεν; ἀντὶ τῶν ἱερῶν ἃ σεσύληκεν; ἀντὶ τῶν τύμβων οὓς ἀνώρυξεν; ἀντὶ τῶν σωμάτων ἃ διέσπειρεν; εἰ γὰρ οὐδὲ πρὸς οὐδὲ ἓν τούτων ἀρκοῦσαν ἔστιν εὑρεῖν τιμωρίαν, ἐπὶ πᾶσι πόσοις ἂν θανάτοις ἀναιρεθείη; εἰ γὰρ μόνον τὸν ναὸν καταστρέψας ὡς ἀσεβήσας ἐκρίνετο, τὰ λοιπὰ προσθεὶς ἐξαιρεθείη ἂν τοῦ ἐγκλήματος; ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδ' εὑρεῖν δεδύνημαι οὔτ' ὄνομα, ᾧ τοῦτον ἐνταῦθα καλέσαιμι, οὔτ' ἔγκλημα, ὑφ' ὃ ὑπάγοιμι. ἀλλ' ὥσπερ εἴ τις σύνθετον ζῷον ἰδὼν κατὰ τὴν μυθευομένην ἐκείνην χίμαιραν πολλαῖς μὲν καὶ διαφόροις διαπεπλασμένον ταῖς κεφαλαῖς, οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον καὶ τὰ κατόπιν διῃρημένον, οὐκ ἂν εἴποι, τί ποτέ ἐστι τὸ ὁρώμενον-τοῦτο δὴ κἀγὼ ἐνταυθοῖ πέπονθα-οὕτω δὴ πολυμιγές τι κακὸν τὸ δεικνύμενον καὶ οὐκ ἄν τις ῥᾳδίως κατονομάσειεν. Ἀλλά τις ἴσως ἐρεῖ μὴ τυμβωρυχίαν εἶναι τὸ γεγονός, ὅτι μή τι τῶν ἐγκειμένων ταῖς θήκαις ἢ ἐξεφόρησεν ἢ ἐβούλετο ἐκφορεῖν. οὐ διαφέρομαι. ἐκεῖνο μὲν γὰρ νεκροσυλία, τοῦτο δὲ ἄντικρυς τυμβωρυχία, καὶ ὥσπερ ὁ τοῖχον διορύττων τοιχωρύχος ἐστίν, οὕτως ὁ τύμβον <διορύττων> τυμβωρύχος ἂν εἰκότως κληθείη. εἰ δ' οὐκ εἶχε τὴν πιέζουσαν ἀνάγκην, τοσοῦτον μᾶλλον κακίων, ὅσον τοῖς μὲν ἐκείνως τυμβωρυχοῦσι τὸ πιέζεσθαι χρῄζει τὴν ἀπολογίαν, ἐνταυθοῖ δὲ ἀπροφάσιστος ἡ παρανομία· κἂν ἀντέχῃ ἔτι τοῦ πιέζεσθαι, ἐγώ