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

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 the tombs themselves, because they were of the finest slab, some with inscriptions on the surface, others intricately worked to a depth and gleaming with gold like rose gardens, and others with a color precisely pure and far-shining. For these things the cutting iron has been suspended and those who pry have been hired, and they have destroyed many of them. And the pieces are in the master's fields, in the beauties and graces of the baths; some he fitted to swimming pools, others he made into bowls and mixing-vessels. And there are some which he transported with wagons and yokes of oxen, installing them as unworked and improvised washing-basins. And the things which we should lament upon seeing, these are occasions for graces. But let the master be absolved of tomb-robbing, if you wish. Why then did he unlawfully dig up the tombs? Why has he moved the immovable? Why has he exposed to public view the dwelling places of the divine souls? What was the compelling reason? What is the cause of the matter? Who ever of those known for piety chose to heap up the tombs from the earth? Is it not the law for fellow soldiers to bury immediately those who fall in wars? Does not anyone, if he should see a dead body lying exposed on the road, immediately, even if he had the soul of a beast, cover it with earth and raise a small mound and set up a stele, having gathered some stones, and fix a cross? But he has done everything diametrically opposite, having brought up those who lie there from the very inner sanctuaries of the earth and made a spectacle of the weakness of our nature. How much more humane than these things are the practices of the Hellenic way of thought? For they gave the dead to the fire, then collected the feeble heads in some vessel, and then burying them they would set up steles and plant elms around and make propitiation. But the divine father did not burn them—for there was nothing left of the bodies for the fire—but he poured out the dust and winnowed it into the air. The followers of Julian were the first to dare these things. For that man, wishing to mock the resurrection, attempted to dissolve the bodies, thinking most irrationally about the doctrines of our piety; for wherever the dissolved bodies might be scattered, they happen to be somewhere within the great compass, and the dissolution does not exceed the power of the one who re-fashions. But let this too be conceded to you; for to him who has the power to prevail in abundance, to grant many points to the accused in no way diminishes his case. But the very act of having attempted to pull down the divine temples, not in order to rebuild—for this defense has been taken away from you—but to reduce them to utter non-existence, just as if he were some Babylonian man, standing over and urging on those who were overturning Jerusalem: "Raze it, raze it, even to its foundations." How shall we overlook this? And what color shall we give to the argument, or what shifting of blame shall we devise? But divine zeal has so abandoned you, and so has the sacred fire been extinguished from your hearts, and nowhere is there a tongue letting fly sparks of words, that some even utter this saying: "Blessed is he who will seize and dash your infants against the rock." saying this, which he has taken from the temple, whether by tearing it from the buildings or by undermining the foundations? But let the infants, whatever we are to understand by them, also be untouched by him. For why is it necessary to dash the newborn? But let the great father pay the penalty, and let his own teeth be set on edge, since he has eaten all the sour grapes. We will concede to you even the destruction of the shrine, which no one else of the accusers would. But how shall we acquit him of this? For since he has taken away the whole of the temple and with everything the sacred throne, and he has dug up along with the foundations also the secrets of the mysteries, the limbs of the martyrs, the voluntary sacrifices, the composition of the incense. Why has he not enclosed the floor of the first tabernacle with some curtains? For do not speak to me bitterly concerning the holy and worldly

σοι καὶ τοῦτο ἐάσομαι. οὐκ ἐδεῖτο μὲν τῶν νεκροστόλων ἀμφίων. ὁμολογῶ, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἤδη πάντα σεσήπασιν. ἀλλ' ἐδεῖτο τῶν τύμβων αὐτῶν, ὅτι πλακὸς ἐτύγχανον τῆς ἀρίστης καὶ τῶν μὲν ἐξ ἐπιπολῆς αἱ γραμμαί, τῶν δὲ εἰς βάθος καὶ χρυσαυγεῖς διαπεποικιλμέναι οἷον ῥοδωνιαῖς, τῶν δὲ τὸ χρῶμα καθαρὸν ἀκριβῶς καὶ τηλεφανές. ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ ὁ τέμνων ἀπῃώρηται σίδηρος καὶ οἱ ἀντωθοῦντες μεμίσθωνται καὶ πολλοὺς αὐτῶν διῃρήκασι. καὶ τὰ τμήματα ἐν τοῖς δεσποτικοῖς ἀγροῖς, ἐν τοῖς τῶν λουτρῶν κάλλεσί τε καὶ χάρισι· τὰ μὲν κολυμβήθραις ἥρμοσε, τὰ δὲ φιάλας καὶ κρατῆρας πεποίηκεν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ οὓς ἀπήναις καὶ βοῶν ζεύγεσι μετεκόμισεν, ἀπραγματεύτους λουτῆρας καὶ αὐτοσχεδίους ἐγκαταθέμενος. καὶ ἃ θρηνεῖν δέον ὁρῶντας, ταῦτα χαρίτων εἰσὶν ἀφορμαί. Ἀλλ' ἀφείσθω τῆς τυμβωρυχίας ὁ δεσπότης, εἰ βούλεσθε. τί ποτε οὖν παρανόμως τοὺς τάφους ἀνώρυττε; τί κεκίνηκε τὰ ἀκίνητα; τί δεδημοσίευκε τὰ τῶν θείων ψυχῶν οἰκητήρια; τί τὸ καταναγκάσαν; τίς ἡ αἰτία τοῦ πράγματος; τίς ποτε τῶν ἐπ' εὐσεβείᾳ γνωρίμων ἀναχωννύειν τῆς γῆς τοὺς τάφους εἵλετο; οὐ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις πίπτοντας νόμος τοὺς συστρατιώτας καταθάπτειν εὐθύς; οὐκ, εἴ τις ἴδοι νεκρὸν ἐν ὁδῷ σῶμα προκείμενον, εὐθύς, κἂν θηρίου ψυχὴν ἔχοι, καλύπτει τῇ γῇ καὶ βραχύν τινα κολωνὸν ἐγείρει καὶ στήλην ἵστησι λίθους τινὰς συμφορήσας καὶ σταυρὸν πήγνυσιν; ὁ δὲ ἐκ διαμέτρου πάντα πεποίηκεν, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἀδύτων τῆς γῆς τοὺς κειμένους ἀναβιβάσας καὶ τὴν τῆς φύσεως ἡμῶν θεατρίσας ἀσθένειαν. πόσῳ τούτων τὰ τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γνώμης φιλανθρωπότερα; οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῷ πυρὶ τοὺς κεκμηκότας ἐδίδοσαν, ἔπειτ' ἐν ἄγγει τινὶ συνεφόρουν ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα, εἶτα δὴ καταχωννύντες στήλας τε ἵστων καὶ πτελέας πέριξ ἐφύτευον καὶ ἱλάσκοντο. ὁ δὲ θεῖος πατὴρ οὐ κατέφλεξε μέν-οὐδὲν γὰρ ἦν ἔτι τῶν σωμάτων ὑπολιπὲς τῷ πυρί- διέχεε δὲ τὴν κόνιν καὶ εἰς ἀέρα ἐλίκμησεν. Ἰουλιανοὶ ταῦτα φθάσαντες τετολμήκασιν. ἐκεῖνος γὰρ διακωμῳδεῖν βουλόμενος τὴν ἀνάστασιν διαλύειν ἐπεχείρει τὰ σώματα, ἀλογώτατα περὶ τοὺς τῆς εὐσεβείας ἡμῶν λόγους διανοούμενος· ὅπου γὰρ ἂν διαλυθέντα διασπαρεῖεν τὰ σώματα, ἐντός που τῆς μεγάλης τυγχάνει περιοχῆς καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἡ λύσις οὐχ ὑπερβαίνει τοῦ ἀναπλάττοντος. Ἀλλ' ἔστω καὶ τοῦτο συγκεχωρημένον ὑμῖν· ᾧ γὰρ ἐκ περιουσίας ἐστὶ τὸ κρατεῖν, τούτῳ τὰ πολλὰ διδόναι τοῖς κατηγορουμένοις οὐδέ τι μεῖον ὁ λόγος ἔχει. ἀλλ' αὐτὸ δὴ τὸ ἐπικεχειρηκέναι τοὺς θείους νεὼς καθελεῖν, οὐχ ὥστε ἀνοικοδομεῖν-ἐξῃρήσθω γὰρ ὑμῖν αὕτη ἡ ἀπολογία-, ἀλλ' εἰς τὸ μηδαμῇ μηδαμῶς ὂν περιάγειν, ὥσπερ δή τις ἀνὴρ ὢν Βαβυλώνιος καὶ τοῖς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀνατρέπουσιν ἐφεστηκὼς καὶ ἐγκελευόμενος· "ἐκκενοῦτε, ἐκκενοῦτε ἕως τῶν θεμελίων αὐτῆς". τοῦτο δὴ πῶς περιέψομεν; ποῖον δὲ χρῶμα τῷ λόγῳ δώσομεν ἢ τίνα μελετήσομεν αἰτίας μετάθεσιν; ὁ δὲ θεῖος ζῆλος τοσοῦτον ὑμᾶς ἐπιλέλοιπε καὶ οὕτω τὸ ἱερὸν πῦρ ἀπέσβη τῶν καρδιῶν, καὶ οὐδαμοῦ γλῶττα λόγων ἀφιεῖσα σπινθῆρας ὥστε τινὰς καὶ ταύτην ἀφεῖναι τὴν φωνήν· "μακάριος, ὃς κρατήσει καὶ ἐδαφιεῖ τὰ νήπιά σου πρὸς τὴν πέτραν". ταύτην δὴ λέγων, ἥν ὑφῄρηκε τοῦ νεώ, εἴτε τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ἀφελόμενος εἴτε τῶν θεμελίων ὑποσπάσας; ἀλλ' ἔστωσαν αὐτῷ ἀθιγῆ καὶ τὰ νήπια, ἅτινα ταῦτα ὑποληπτέον. τί γὰρ δεῖ ἐδαφιοῦν τὰ νεογιλά; ἀλλ' ὁ μέγας πατὴρ τὴν δίκην ὑπεχέτω καὶ αὐτὸς αἱμωδιάσθω ὅλους τοὺς ὄμφακας βεβρωκώς. συγχωρήσομεν ὑμῖν καὶ τὴν καταστροφὴν τοῦ σηκοῦ, ὃ μηδεὶς ἂν ἄλλος τῶν κατηγορούντων. τούτου δὲ πῶς ἀπολύσομεν; ἐπεὶ γὰρ τὸ πᾶν ἀφῄρηκε τοῦ νεὼ καὶ μετὰ πάντων τὸν ἱερὸν θρόνον, συνανώρυξε δὲ ταῖς κρηπῖσι καὶ τὰ τῶν μυστηρίων ἀπόρρητα, τὰ μαρτυρικὰ μέλη, τὰ ἐθελόθυτα σφάγια, τὴν συνθήκην τοῦ θυμιάματος. τί μὴ τὸ ἔδαφος τῆς πρώτης σκηνῆς καταπετάσμασί τισι περιείληφε; μὴ γάρ μοι πικρῶς αὐτῷ περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου κοσμικοῦ