Panegyric orations

 To run against you from an opposing lot, he endured but the pentathlon was accomplished for you and the pancratium was completed with no one having c

 The votes, i imagine the divine judgment and i refer to the incorruptible tribunal. when i test you in elections, i admire your intelligence and your

 From afar it shines on those landing and extends a hand to those from the sea, escorting them to rome most painlessly. what in addition to these does

 Using it and bending and curving it towards the drooping jaw, i remember the indian's eyebrow at this, how he held it more than a cubit above his head

 And to a rival. let others, then, measure you against and compare you with whomever they wish, but i, though i seem to make a strange and dissimilar c

 In prose, not in meters and poems or perhaps many are present, but they have no account of the matter, as if it were of no account to them. and time

 The hegemony of his father, with kingdoms overthrown and not a few changes having occurred in both, those who, having exchanged their fortune for the

 He took counsel of opposing nations, but by making everything purchasable with gold and royal splendors, from this he gained the goodwill of all, and

 Opened, and flung wide the very gates of the soul, and associated with wicked and corrupt lives. for he did not at once know the whole line of the fam

 To work deeds of injustice for he was angry with those who did wrong and would punish them. but when he began to be sick and his body was wasting awa

 Not a magnificent spirit, not a musical and graceful speech, nothing else of the sort that knows how to beautify the soul and the nature of the body.

 Drives a sphere, and the other the superterrestrial one, so that the one might wind its own zone in a single cycle, and the other in twelve cycles, an

 Defining the virtues by its power, and practicing the higher geometry. for this, as proclus also says, has occupied the middle ground between the indi

 The power of the kingdom came to him, besides these the life of david among the flocks, the pursuit, those many dangers into which he fell but was not

 He locks up the monarchy into a tyranny, having exchanged one evil for another. justice is not quiet, it kindles the coals, it sends the arrow, the wi

 I call it his girdle-and he draws away no small cavalry and infantry force from old rome, he adds to these also the best army of the east, and no smal

 An angel wrought a more manifest victory. i have something more to say than those wonders there the cross was in types and images, a bronze serpent s

 You, o king the more abundantly you pour out benefits upon us, the more you increase by being filled. from this, no one has been left out of such wea

 With the eyes, then poured out and dissolved, but better and higher than all that is visible. but, o emperor—for i repeat the title to you and call it

 You fill the western beacon, neither grudging us your rays nor altering the color of your disk, but the more time increases the distances, the more be

 The rising of the sun, the land upon which it immediately rises, so that, if any of our people wished, having gone there he could, not with geometrica

 I am an unskillful chronicler of your deeds and erring in my timing, and i do not have a nature that strikes out in both directions at once. for you a

 To wish. for you both comprehend the present and conjecture the future and discover the unseen, discerning character from eyebrows and eyelids, so tha

 To speak? -unseemly even in his appearance, made of tin or dipped in bile and altogether counterfeit gold, but since he was in the midst of dangers, t

 With stones lying along each side, so that the conjoined may seem continuous and the well-fitted of one nature. behold for me the heights and beauties

 But here is a distinct hand divided into five rosy branches. but this is a most unerring testimony of that godlike soul. but do you wish to see some t

 Transcending substance and holding the principles of the forms folded together and least of all divided from the one. and you, being such, do you not

 The fountains of good deeds flowed, as if from a sheer rock, having received the impetus for their flowing these proclaimed you by reputation even be

 A guide, so also there an arbiter of the administrations, that i may suit you for both, both speaking your deeds and doing the words of your administr

 P]ortions are deprived of praise, but no one of all men has been suited to all words of praise. but to you so much is granted [against] all in all thi

 To bring to the highest point of keenness, or your soul which was not [shattered by] trials, but also most nobly endured through the magnitude of the

 And they were torn away, and their manner altered their nature [....], and they have remained, and after the separation, being both nourished and fatt

 But the love of art and the care concerning the divine sanctuaries, what demostheneses or the best of the writers could describe and praise? how beau

 Having surpassed in his heroic deeds him and the kings up to you, but in his plans he is recorded as being less than his accomplishments, winning in [

 Less, you have given the first place to reason over passion, and you have established the one like some foundation upon the acropolis, but the other y

 Having considered what is seen, but when i also behold the tomb of the queen, and i behold it often whenever i wish to console some hardship of fortun

 To comprehend in a speech. for to whom could the unattainable be attainable, even if he were rich in the homeric power for speeches, or the herodotan

 Admiring and in return is eager to make an image and someone already having constructed a stele for you inscribed the gentle one. therefore solomon

 Much praise and measured against all of time. how then could i summarize the whole in a few words? i will speak, therefore, a little of your virtues,

 Everyone rejoices and exults with the one who has taken up your encomiums and because i did not weave the words of praise sooner, he is rather vexed

 Gracefulness, the maturity of your thought, the symmetry of your greatness, the quick-wittedness, the stability of your mind, the unmarried life, the

 At once for us the lord and most skilled in command and pleasing to all, o most excellent foresight, o wise consideration, o most noble counsel, o div

 Of virtues? you, beyond any kings who ever were, honored justice and preferred philanthropy, and having attained the height of prudence, you appeared

 Accomplishments? o the arrows from heaven against the barbarians, o the unseen bowshots, o the angelic powers in the air, o the divine armies against

 The greatest part of character. for as many as have become of a civic disposition, if they have descended to this willingly, they seemed both prudent

 Of civil administration and of divine hearing. if therefore, being engaged in one, he also holds to the other, let this for now be a secret to many. b

 Of wise men going to ammon's shrine or being within the delphic tripod suddenly transferred their apparent wisdom to the more divine and greater, how

 We have taken starting points, and yet more absurd, if we render praises to the good and noble men who have died, for what they have said concerning w

 And not many months after the sowing, but immediately reaping the harvest and so that i might say what is from the gospel, the two were running toget

 If we should set about to build him up, this marvelous man, both in nature and in diligence, has received much contribution toward his eloquence from

 For having embraced one of these, they might neglect the rest, or putting ears before mind, they have an unintelligible tongue, or having drawn up spr

 Pleases the petty and the overly artful. therefore, of these enumerated wise men, the one now honored in this discourse wishes to imitate gregory, and

 I knew not only what the greeks knew, nor what the chaldeans or egyptians knew, but i had also condemned them, though not all of them, nor has my refu

 With magnanimity, he who was both namesake and like-minded with the great constantine, and who alone nobly contended against all, and taking his name-

 Regulates the state of the church, no less than moses who constructed the tabernacle below according to the pattern shown to him for whether melodies

 Concerning which things, before his high-priesthood, at a time when he did not even have many resources of money, he constructed brilliantly and accom

 And to impart to others. and perhaps he did not endure the waves of the sea, but in his toils on land he might in some way be compared to paul. and co

 One of two things happening, either god descending into the mind, or the mind ascending to god. but what is the place of god's rest, or by which of al

 Of a voice, nor were you instructed by any of the higher powers, to lay aside the symbols of the priesthood, and to transfer yourself to another life,

 Nothing unpleasant would happen to those handling these things but for you, who happen to be a philosopher, what harm will come from these affairs? j

 Of words but you, o king, will both speak publicly among the armies and bring an impulse with your speech and will rouse them together for the deed.

 May you be crowned on the head with glorious trophies. may you be adorned with deeds of valor against the barbarians, and be escorted by many victorie

 May you rend the sea and stop the river and vanquish amalek. may a cloud, giving shade over your head, take away your burning heat, and a pillar of li

to bring to the highest point of keenness, or your soul which was not [shattered by] trials, but also most nobly endured through the magnitude of the circumstances and the length of the time? [But it] was necessary for you to be melted in the testing fire, and you have been melted, so skillfully indeed as to be revealed as gold most pure and most precious. But for the other harmony what citharas and lyres, and what Muses able to sound forth in various ways will suffice? For since it was necessary for you to appear, the sun that was until now hidden, the cloud was broken, the mist was scattered, and storms and tempests were dispersed. And some things withdrew and stood aside, all that indeed opposed you, while other things were collected and gathered together, the forces of the people, the counsels of the senate, elections and decrees and the opinions of those from the ends of the earth, harmonized into one form. And those who were previously divided were then joined in one opinion, and the difference in ages had no difference in sentiment, but both the old together and the young uttering the same voice showed also one mind. Thus for you wondrously from the east the races were joined and all things were brought together to one perfection, over all of which with a transparent circle and ineffable splendor appearing above the horizon, and with swiftness of course having reached our meridian by your ascents, and having become the middle of the universe and casting your rays in a circle, you have embraced the entire inhabited world within, so that all may enjoy both the light and the warmth. Therefore, this visible sun in the sky with its unwearying and uniform motions measures out its radiance by its course, and from whichever point it has approached, from there it sends brighter beams to those below, seeming to stand still because of the distance, but running unceasingly and moving together with the ever-moving course of the universe. But you from one and the same point pouring forth your graces, spread out your torch-bearing of equal measure to the cosmic centers, being at once both fixed and moving, and reaching everywhere and not departing from the royal circle. For what place does not have you or where have you not gone? And what recess of [ea]rth or sea has not received your flashes of lightning, which have a twofold power, so as to fill some with radiance, and [others] to set on fire, according to the proportion of the matter and quality of those who receive them? But since the forms of [benefac]tions are varied, being divided by the differences of virtues, and indeed of those benefited the division [is made] both individually and by multitude. Thus in all things you have appeared above all, so as to conquer, along with all others, words also. For [the o]ne individually, to sum up the whole, is most fortunate and most blessed according to the heroes of old [......]s p[....] have come from not such things. and those by multitude are whole cities and peoples and theaters, and all nations [....] well-g[o]verned and subject or freed from the inhumanity of tax-collectors or delivered from the oppression of rulers or any other oppressor. But was it necessary for others to be so splendidly honored, and for your [fatherla]nd [in which you yourself] were born and over which you have reigned to have honored with less than any of the preceding powers? [Fa]r from it. But it is [untrou]bled; you made its borders the east and the [w]es[t] of the nations, [the] ma[ny .......], and there are those whom you also attacked and having c[onqu]ered and [ens]laved both, first m[..................] with the graces of philanthropy. And if there is anything even now [that is] convulsing and moving, but with the head of the drag[on] having been destro[yed], the writhings of the rest of the body are completely empty, as time [go]es on both dying together and wasting away together and [......]. But as i[f] li[zards] they were glued to the body of our city and the se[par]ated dra[g-nets] came to one [...........], you wondrously having brought these things together and fixed them, and having fitted their nature to others [and to others] adapted it, there are things that have also been torn apart

τὴν ἄκραν ὀξύτητα ἀγαγεῖν, ἢ τὴν σὴν ψυχὴν μὴ διαρ[ραγεῖσαν ἐξε]τάσεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ μεγέθει τῶν περιστάσεων καὶ τῷ πλήθει τοῦ χρόνου γενναιότατα διαρκέσασαν; [ἀλλ' ἔ]δει σε χωνευθῆναι τῷ δοκιμαστικῷ πυρί, καὶ κεχώνευσαι, οὕτω δὴ τεχνικῶς ὡς χρυσὸν ἀναδειχθῆναι καθαρώτατόν τε καὶ τιμαλφέστατον. Τοῖς δὲ τῆς ἑτέρας ἁρμονίας ποῖαι κιθάραι καὶ λύραι, ποῖαι δὲ μοῦσαι ποικίλως ἠχῆσαι δυναμέναι προσαρκέσουσιν; ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἔδει σε ἀναφανῆναι τὸν τέως κρυπτόμενον ἥλιον, ἐρρήγνυτο μὲν τὸ νέφος, διεσπᾶτο δὲ ἡ ἀχλύς, καταιγίδες δὲ καὶ θύελλαι ἐσκεδάννυντο. καὶ τὰ μὲν ὑπεχώρει καὶ ὑπεξίστατο, ὅσα δή σοι ἀντέπιπτον, τὰ δὲ συνείλεκτό τε καὶ συνηθροίζετο, δήμου βίαι, συγκλήτου βουλαί, χειροτονίαι τε καὶ ψηφίσματα καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐκ περάτων γῆς εἰς μίαν ἰδέαν συνηρμοσμέναι. καὶ οἱ πρότερον διεστηκότες πρὸς μίαν γνώμην τότε συνήπτοντο, τῶν ἡλικιῶν τε τὸ διάφορον διαφορὰν οὐκ εἶχε φρονήματος, ἀλλὰ καὶ γεγηρακότες ὁμοῦ καὶ νεάζοντες τὴν αὐτὴν φωνὴν ἀφιέντες μίαν ἐδήλουν καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν. οὕτω σοι παραδόξως πρὸς τῆς ἀνατολῆς καὶ τὰ γένη συνήπτοντο καὶ πρὸς τελειότητα μίαν πάντα συνήγοντο, ἐφ' οἷς πᾶσι διαυγεῖ κύκλῳ καὶ ἀρρήτῳ τῇ λαμπηδόνι ὑπερφανεὶς τοῦ ὁρίζοντος, καὶ τάχει δρόμου πρὸς τὴν καθ' ἡμᾶς μεσημβρίαν φθάσας ταῖς ἀναβάσεσι, καὶ τοῦ παντὸς μέσον γενόμενος κύκλῳ τε τὰς ἀκτίνας ἀφείς, πᾶσαν ἔνδον τὴν οἰκουμένην συμπεριείληφας ὡς πάντας καὶ τοῦ φωτὸς παραπολαῦσαι καὶ τῆς θερμότητος. ὁ μὲν οὖν ὁρώμενος οὗτος ἐν οὐρανῷ ἥλιος ταῖς ἀκαμάτοις καὶ ἰσοταχέσι κινήσεσι τῷ δρόμῳ τὴν αἴγλην μετρεῖ, καὶ ᾧ πεπλησίακε κέντρῳ ἐκεῖθεν λαμπροτέρας τοῖς ὑποκειμένοις ἀφίησι τὰς αὐγάς, στηρίζειν μὲν δοκῶν διὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν, ἄπαυστα δὲ θέων καὶ συγκινούμενος τῇ τοῦ παντὸς ἀεικινήτῳ φορᾷ. σὺ δὲ ἀφ' ἑνὸς καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ σημείου προχέων τὰς χάριτας, ἰσόμετρον τοῖς κοσμικοῖς κέντροις τὴν δᾳδουχίαν ἁπλοῖς, στηρίζων ὁ αὐτὸς ὁμοῦ καὶ κινούμενος καὶ πανταχοῦ φθάνων καὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ κύκλου μὴ ἀφιστάμενος. ποῖος γὰρ οὐκ ἔχει σε χῶρος ἢ ποῖ μὴ πεπόρευσαι σύ; ποῖος δὲ μυχὸς [γ]ῆς ἢ θαλάσσης τὰς σὰς ἀστραπὰς οὐκ ἐδέξατο, διττὴν ἐχούσας τὴν δύναμιν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν αἴγλης πληροῦν, [τοὺς] δὲ ἐμπιπρᾶν, κατὰ τὴν ἀνάλογον τῶν ὑποδεχομένων ὕλην τε καὶ ποιότητα; ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ ποικίλα τῶν εὐεργετη[μάτων τ]ὰ εἴδη ταῖς τῶν ἀρετῶν διαφοραῖς μεριζόμενα, τῶν τε μὴν εὐεργετουμένων καθ' ἕνα τε καὶ κατὰ πλῆθος [γίνεται ἡ] διαίρεσις. Οὕτως ἐν ἅπασιν ὑπὲρ ἅπαντας ἀναπέφηνας, ὡς μετὰ πάντων καὶ τοὺς λόγους νικᾶν. [ὁ μὲν γ]ὰρ καθ' ἕνα, ἵνα τὸ πᾶν συγκεφαλαιώσωμαι, εὐδαιμονέστατός τε καὶ ὀλβιώτατος κατὰ τοὺς πάλαι τῶν ἡρώων [......]ένας π[....] ἀπὸ μὴ τοιούτων γεγόνασιν. οἱ δὲ κατὰ πλῆθος πόλεις ὅλαι καὶ δῆμοι καὶ θέατρα, ἔθνη τε [....] ἅπαντα εὐ[ν]ομούμενα καὶ ὑπήκοα ἢ φορολόγων ἀπανθρωπίας ἐλευθερούμενα ἢ βαρύτητος ἀπαλλαττόμενα δυναστῶν ἤ τινος ἄλλου τοῦ συμπιέζοντος. ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους οὕτως ἔδει λαμπρῶς τετιμῆσθαι, τὴν δὲ [πατρί]δα [ἐν ᾗ αὐτὸς] γεγένησαι καὶ ἐφ' ᾗ βεβασίλευκας ἔλαττόν τινος τῶν προειληφότων τὸ κράτος τετιμηκέναι; [πο]λλοῦ γε καὶ δεῖ. ἡ δὲ [ἀτρε]μής· ὅρους αὐτῇ ἀνατολὴν καὶ [δ]ύσι[ν ἐ]ποίησας τῶν ἐθνῶν, [τοὺς] μὲν πο[λλοὺς .......], ἔστι δὲ οἷς καὶ προσβαλὼν καὶ ἄμφω ν[ενι]κηκώς τε καὶ [δου]λωσάμενος, πρῶτα μ[..................] φιλανθρωπίας ταῖς χάρισιν. εἰ δέ τι καὶ νῦν ἐστι [ὡς] σπαῖρόν τε καὶ κινούμενον, ἀλλὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς ἀναιρεθ[είσης] δράκ[οντος], κενοὶ πάντως οἱ τοῦ λοιποῦ σώματος ἐλιγμοί, [περι]ϊόντι τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ συννεκρούμενοί τε καὶ συντηκόμενοι καὶ [......]. ἀλλ' ὥσ[περ] μόλ[ουροι] τῷ τῆς ἡμετέρας πόλεως συνεκολλήθησαν σώματι καὶ πρὸς μίαν διῆλθε τὰ δι[εσ]τηκότα σύρ[ματα ...........], σοῦ παραδόξως ταῦτα συναγαγόντος τε καὶ συμπήξαντος καὶ τὴν φύσιν ἄλλοις ἁρμόσαντος [καὶ ἄλλοις] προσαρμόσαντος, ἔστιν ἃ διερράγησάν τε