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

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 it the cherubim, and the Word who is sacrificed, and Jesus who is dismembered, and the descent of the Spirit and all that pertains to grace, why did he not exercise some forbearance here, but left the sacred ground open to the gentiles, so that they might enter into the inheritance of the Lord and defile his temple and make the untouchable fair offerings and sacrifices of his servants food for the flesh-eating birds? For this indeed I have been able neither to accuse in measure, nor, if anyone should make a defense, would I say that he has sense. But for this, if you wish, even take me and tear me apart. For how gladly would I die, being zealous for divine things and being inflamed and set on fire by the scandal of the many. For if that divine Baruch could not bear that Jerusalem was about to be sacked, but having stolen some of the sacred objects, he hid them somewhere unseen in the earth, which indeed he had also made wet with the libations of his tears, how shall I endure, having seen the captivity itself, having seen the captor himself and being able to steal away neither the covenant of the Lord, nor the mercy-seat, nor any of the cherubim, nor a libation-vessel, nor a censer, nor any of the lavers, so that I might have this as a reminder of the old happiness? But all my prosperity has been taken from me, I have been utterly plundered, I have been enslaved. I have become captive to the spear again and spear-won by the Persian; the Babylonian has conquered me again. I am being removed to another land, I am being led away to serve as a slave among the Persians or to be put to death. And the heaviest thing of all is that I come to pray for the last time at the temple. And I do not know where I might turn, or rather, where having turned I might see the sanctuary of the Lord. Thus the new Nebuchadnezzar took away its distinctive features, even transporting the stones themselves from there, so that that famous temple might be for common insult and trampling. This, then, the temple of the great wisdom of God most clearly indicated, showing in some of its parts the burn-marks of unseen lightnings in various shapes; for at the same time this one was appointed and fire ravaged the church. These were the great messages and signs of those things: the divine ground being insulted and the liturgical vessels being dishonored and the sacred furniture being polluted and defiled. Of which things he, placing the blame on others, now knew these things were being foreshadowed against himself. And these things would never cease, nor will the Lord's wrath stop—for so to speak is clearer—being set on fire and kindled at each of the things accomplished by him, unless you rise up together and vote against him today. But if you should be divided, there is fear, lest the judgment come upon you, who, when it is possible to prevent the terrible thing and to quench the wrath of God, on the one hand provide a wide path for it, and on the other hand kindle it; for to the emperor, as much as was possible, it has been expiated. But let the speech return to the first points. If, then, anyone could say that these things are not true, but are otherwise nonsense and long nonsense, with this person we will not contend; for he has been deprived of the eyes of the body and of the soul. But if all things are manifest under the great light of the sun, what could one say against the demolition, or what pretext of a defense about this has been left for anyone? For not even this will anyone be able to say, that the things that have happened are terrible and surpass every excess of accusation, but the great father was ignorant, for he lived somewhere nearby, separated from the temple by one span and two fingers, so that I may say something ridiculous. And under him urging and commanding, both the one with the chisel and the one with the axe and the one with the hatchet and the one with the shovel and the porter, one was tearing down, another was pushing against, another was carrying out the soil, another was moving the foundations, another was unpaving the ground, and another was shown doing something else. But he, half-visible through the lattice-work

ἐξετάσωμεν μηδὲ περὶ τῆς μετ' ἐκεῖνο σκηνῆς, ἀλλὰ λογιζέσθω αὐτῷ ταῦτα θέατρά τε καὶ κυνηγέσια. ὅπου δὲ τὸ ἱλαστήριον καὶ πέριξ τὰ χερουβὶμ καὶ ὁ θυόμενος λόγος καὶ ὁ μελιζόμενος Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἡ τοῦ πνεύματος κάθοδος καὶ ὅσα τῆς χάριτος, τί μὴ ἐνταῦθα φειδὼ περιπεποιήκει τινά, ἀλλ' ἔθνεσιν ἀφῆκε τὸ ἱερὸν ἔδαφος ἄνετον, ἵν' εἰσέλθοιεν εἰς τὴν τοῦ κυρίου κληρονομίαν καὶ χράνειαν αὐτοῦ τὸν ναὸν καὶ τὰ ἄψαυστα τῶν δούλων αὐτοῦ καλλιερήματά τε καὶ θύματα τοῖς σαρκοβόροις ὄρνεσι θεῖεν κατάβρωμα; τούτου δὴ οὔτε κατηγορεῖν ἐν μέτρῳ δεδύνημαι οὔτ', εἴ τις ἀπολογήσαιτο, νοῦν ἔχειν φήσαιμ' ἄν. ἀλλά με ὑπὲρ τούτου, εἰ βούλεσθε, καὶ λαβόντες διαμερίσατε. ὡς ἡδέως γὰρ ἂν ἀποθάνοιμι τὰ θεῖα ζηλοτυπῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ τῶν πολλῶν σκανδάλῳ διαθερμαινόμενος καὶ πυρούμενος. εἰ γὰρ Βαροὺχ ἐκεῖνος ὁ θεῖος οὐκ ἤνεγκε πορθήσεσθαι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ μέλλουσαν, ἀλλά τινα τῶν ἱερῶν κεκλοφὼς ἔστιν ὅπου τῆς γῆς κατέκρυψεν ἀφανῶς, ἣν δὴ καὶ διάβροχον ταῖς τῶν δακρύων ἐπεποιήκει σπονδαῖς, ἐγὼ πῶς ἀνέξομαι αὐτὴν τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν ἑωρακώς, αὐτὸν ἰδὼν τὸν αἰχμαλωτεύοντα καὶ μήτε τὴν διαθήκην κυρίου ὑφελεῖν δυνάμενος, μὴ τὸ ἱλαστήριον, μηδένα τῶν χερουβίμ, μὴ σπονδεῖον, μὴ θυΐσκον, μὴ τῶν λουτήρων τινά, ἵν' ἔχοιμι τοῦτο τῆς παλαιᾶς εὐδαιμονίας ὑπόμνησιν; ἀλλ' ἀφῄρηταί μοι ὁ πᾶς ὄλβος, περισεσύλημαι, ἠνδραπόδισμαι. δοριάλωτος καὶ πάλιν γέγονα καὶ τῷ Πέρσῃ δορίκτητος· κεκράτηκέ μου πάλιν ὁ Βαβυλώνιος. πρὸς ἑτέραν μετασκευάζομαι γῆν, ἀπάγομαι δουλεύσων ἐν Πέρσαις ἢ τεθνηξόμενος. καὶ τό γε βαρύτατον, ὅτι ἀφικνοῦμαι τὰ τελευταῖα προσευξόμενος τῷ νεῴ. καὶ οὐκ ἔχω ποῖ τράπωμαι, μᾶλλον δὲ ποῖ τραπόμενος τοῦ κυρίου ἰδεῖν τὸ ἁγίασμα. οὕτως ὁ νέος Ναβουχοδονόσορ ἀφεῖλεν αὐτοῦ τὰ γνωρίσματα καὶ αὐτοὺς τοὺς λίθους ἐκεῖθεν μετενεγκών, ἵν' ᾖ ὁ διαβόητος ἐκεῖνος νεὼς εἰς κοινὴν ὕβριν καὶ καταπάτημα. τοῦτο ἄρα σαφέστατα κατεμήνυεν ὁ τῆς μεγάλης τοῦ θεοῦ σοφίας νεώς, ἐνιαχοῦ τῶν μερῶν ἐγκαύματα δεικνὺς ἀφανῶν ἀστραπῶν ἐν διαφόροις τοῖς σχήμασιν· ὁμοῦ τε γὰρ οὗτος κεχειροτόνητο καὶ πῦρ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν διελυμήνατο. τούτων ἐκεῖνα τὰ μεγάλα μηνύματα καὶ γνωρίσματα, τὸ θεῖον ἔδαφος ὑβριζόμενον καὶ τὰ λειτουργικὰ σκεύη ἀτιμαζόμενα καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ ἔπιπλα μολυνόμενα καὶ χραινόμενα. ὧν ἐκεῖνος ἐφ' ἑτέρους τὰς αἰτίας τιθεὶς νῦν ἔγνω καθ' ἑαυτοῦ ταῦτα σκιαγραφούμενα. καὶ οὐκ ἄν ποτε ταῦτα παύσαιντο οὐδὲ ὁ τοῦ κυρίου λήξει θυμός-οὕτω γὰρ εἰπεῖν ἐναργέστερον-πυρούμενος ἐφ' ἑκάστοις τῶν παρ' αὐτοῦ τελουμένων καὶ ἐκκαιόμενος, εἰ μὴ γε κοινῇ ἀναστάντες καταψηφίσεσθε τούτου τὴν τήμερον. εἰ δὲ διακριθείητε, δέος, μὴ ἐφ' ὑμᾶς ἔλθοι τὸ κρῖμα, τοὺς ἐξὸν τὸ δεινὸν ἀνείργειν καὶ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ σβεννύειν ὀργὴν τῷ μὲν πάροδον πλατεῖαν παρέχοντας, ἐκείνην δὲ ὑπανάπτοντας· τῷ γάρ τοι βασιλεῖ, παρ' ὅσον ἐνῆν, ἀφωσίωται. Ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τὰ πρῶτα ὁ λόγος ἐπανεστράφθω. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἔχοι τις εἰπεῖν, ὡς οὐκ ἀληθῆ ταῦτα, ἀλλὰ λῆρος ἄλλως καὶ λῆρος μακρός, πρὸς τοῦτον ἡμεῖς οὐ διενεξόμεθα· ἀφῄρηται γὰρ καὶ τὰ τοῦ σώματος ὄμματα καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς. εἰ δ' ἐμφανῆ πάντα ὑπὸ τῷ μεγάλῳ τοῦ ἡλίου φωτί, τί τις ἂν εἰπεῖν ἔχοι πρὸς τὴν καθαίρεσιν ἢ τίς ἀπολογίας τινὶ περὶ τούτου καταλέλειπται πρόφασις; οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἐρεῖν τις δυνήσεται, ὡς δεινὰ μὲν τὰ γεγονότα καὶ πᾶσαν κατηγορίας ὑπερβολὴν ὑπεραίροντα, ἀλλ' ὁ μέγας ἠγνόει πατήρ, αὐτοῦ που γὰρ ἐν γειτόνων ᾤκει σπιθαμῇ μιᾷ καὶ δακτύλοις δυσίν, ἵνα τι καὶ γελοῖον εἴπω, διειργόμενος τοῦ νεώ. καὶ ὑπ' ἐκείνῳ προτρεπομένῳ τε καὶ κελεύοντι καὶ ὁ τὸ λαξευτήριον καὶ ὁ τὴν αξίνην καὶ ὁ τὸν πέλεκυν καὶ ὁ τὸ πτύον καὶ ὁ ἀχθοφόρος, ὁ μὲν διῄρει, ὁ δὲ ἀντώθει, ὁ δὲ τὸν χοῦν ἐξεφόρει, ὁ δὲ μετεκίνει τοὺς θεμελίους, ὁ δὲ ἀπεστρώννυ τὸ ἔδαφος, ὁ δ' ἄλλο τι ποιῶν ἐδείκνυτο. ὁ δὲ ἡμιφανῶς διὰ τῶν κιγκλίδων