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

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 this great tabernacle, having infiltrated the divine mysteries from motives and accusations of tyranny. And let no one think that I, somewhere up in my discourse, have forgotten this accusation. But not giving as much to the accusation as to the economy, I have omitted most of the charges, both because I was fearful about the timing, lest I be casting my argument from afar, and having measured out the accusations against him, and thirdly, so that I would not be compelled to bear witness on each of the points; since, indeed, if I were willing to say anything of the things before his priesthood, I might quickly overwhelm you, pouring out one thing after another upon you and letting it loose in a torrent. But I would not speak either of his lust for kingship or his scheming for it. I am silent about that conspiracy, the secret counsels, the investigations, the condemnations, the exile, the forced change of life, the unwilling change of dress. I leave aside the things in between: the unascetic ragged cloak, the servile worship, the promise, the bribery, the vote. I am silent about the other things: the women's quarters, the removal of the veils, the unholy meetings. I leave aside the weeping of infants, the newborns in arms, the wedding feast, the nuptial songs, the joining of things not to be mixed, a divine temple and a worldly dwelling. I pass over the rest, lest I should seem a bitter accuser to him, lest I should seem to be reviling instead of accusing. If, therefore, as I have said, you had barred the temple to him at first, he would not have entered—or rather, flowed in like a torrent—and inundated everything. But since you have neglected that part and it is not possible to turn back time to propose a consideration and a plan concerning that, let the present wound among you be healed and let the diseased head be cut off. For the rest of the body will not yet expire, but another will be placed upon it and fitted to it, and again the body of Christ will appear complete. Who will this be? God will see to it, just as of old a sheep for a burnt offering, so indeed now a high priest for sacrificing on behalf of the people and being sacrificed for them. For now, let the beast be driven from the enclosures of Christ. And let him neither go up to the mountain of the Lord like Moses, entering into the cloud, nor stand far off like the seventy and the senate, nor lurk somewhere below at the foot of the mountain. For he will again be stoned by hard words. For there is no unholy thing that he has not done: he has thrown the affairs of the kingdom into confusion; of two kings, he dared to bring one down, and he worked against the one that remained. And he has acted precisely as a tyrant and has become the opposite of King Uzziah; for the one entered the holy place to burn incense to God, but this man has snuck into the palace, having renounced it in word. This man has dared worse than that one. For these reasons, the one broke out with leprosy in part, but this one's entire body has been disfigured so that he even needs artificial hands, his fingers and nails having given up on scratching; perhaps he too is melting clods of earth, scraping away the sores. Just as, therefore, ancient Israel, out of respect for his power not rebuking the one who dared against divine things, was deprived of visions, but when that one died, then He appeared to the prophet according to that ineffable formation, so also we would not see the Lord unless we put far from the camp the one who has grown shameless against Him. For according to the prophet, his face has become that of a prostitute; he has acted shamelessly toward all, he has brought together kingship and priesthood. For his hand was making the sign of the cross, but his tongue was voting as a king, arming some, and arming others against them; as if for war he was mustering an army. And as an ambitious man he was giving to one a spear, to another a sword, to another a javelin. One he was kindling to anger, another he was stirring up for war, perhaps even shouting these military commands: "Unfurl

ἡμᾶς κατεπίμπρα πῦρ καὶ ὁ τοῦ κυρίου ζῆλος κατήσθιε, πάλαι ἂν ὁ ἀνὴρ ἀπωλώλει, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐδ' ἂν πάροδον εἶχεν ἐπὶ τὴν μεγάλην ταύτην σκηνήν, ἐξ αἰτιῶν καὶ ἐγκλημάτων τυραννικῶν ἐπὶ τὰ θεῖα μυστήρια εἰσδεδυκώς. καί με μηδεὶς οἰέσθω ἄνωθί που τοῦ λόγου τῆς αἰτίας ταύτης ἐπιλαθόμενον. ἀλλ' οὐ τῇ κατηγορίᾳ τοσοῦτον διδοὺς ὅσον τῇ οἰκονομίᾳ τὰ μὲν πολλὰ τῶν κατηγορημάτων παρῆκα, ἅμα τε περὶ τοῦ καιροῦ δεδιώς, ἵνα μὴ πόρρωθεν εἴην βάλλων τὸν λόγον, καὶ μετρήσας αὐτῷ τὰ ἐγκλήματα καὶ τρίτον, ἵνα μὴ ἐφ' ἑκάστῳ τῶν λόγων μαρτυρεῖν ἀναγκάζωμαι, ἐπεί τοί γε, εἰ λέγειν τι τῶν πρὸ τῆς ἱερωσύνης ἐθέλοιμι, τάχ' ἂν ὑμᾶς κατακλύσαιμι, ἄλλα ἐπ' ἄλλοις ἐπαντλῶν ὑμῖν καὶ ἐφιεὶς τῷ ῥεύματι. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν εἴποιμι οὔτε τὸν τῆς βασιλίας ἔρωτα οὔτε τὴν περὶ τούτου μελέτην. σιωπῶ τὴν συνωμοσίαν ἐκείνην, τὰ μυστηριώδη βουλεύματα, τοὺς ἐλέγχους, τὰς κατακρίσεις, τὴν ὑπερορίαν, τὴν κατηναγκασμένην τοῦ βίου μετάθεσιν, τὴν ἀπροαίρετον μεταμφίασιν. ἀφίημι τὰ ἐν μέσῳ· τὸ ἀνάσκητον τριβώνιον, τὴν ἀνελεύθερον λατρείαν, τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, τὸν δεκασμόν, τὴν ψῆφον. σιωπῶ τἆλλα· τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν, τὴν τῶν καταπετασμάτων ἀφαίρεσιν, τὰς ἀνιέρους ἐντυχίας. ἀφίημι τὸν κλαυθμὸν τῶν βρεφῶν, τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγκάλης νεογνά, τὴν ἐπιγάμιον θοίνην, τὰ ἐπιθαλάμια ᾄσματα, τὸ συνάψαι τὰ ἄμικτα, θεῖον νεὼν καὶ κοσμικὸν ἐνδιαίτημα. παρίημι τὰ λοιπά, ἵνα μὴ πικρὸς αὐτῷ φαινοίμην κατήγορος, ἵνα μὴ λοιδορεῖν ἀντὶ τοῦ κατηγορεῖν δόξαιμι. εἰ τοίνυν, ὅπερ εἴρηκα, τὴν πρώτην αὐτῷ τὸν νεὼν ἀπεφράξατε, οὐκ ἂν εἰσεληλυθὼς, μᾶλλον δὲ εἰσρυεὶς ὥσπερ ῥεῦμα, τὰ πάντα κατέκλυσεν. ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ τὸ μέρος ἐκεῖνο παρήκατε καὶ οὐκ ἔνι τὸν χρόνον ἀναλύσαντας σκέψιν περὶ ἐκείνου προθεῖναι καὶ βούλευμα, τὸ παρὸν ὑμῖν τραῦμα ἰάσθω καὶ ἡ νενοσηκυῖα ἀποτετμήσθω κεφαλή. οὐ γάρ πω ἀποπνεύσει τὸ λοιπὸν σῶμα, ἀλλ' ἑτέρα τις ἐπιτεθήσεται καὶ προσπλασθήσεται καὶ ἄρτιον αὖθις φανήσεται τὸ σῶμα Χριστοῦ. τίς αὕτη; ὄψεται ὁ θεὸς ὥσπερ πάλαι εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν πρόβατον οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἀρχιερέα νῦν εἰς τὸ προθύειν τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ προθύεσθαι. τέως δὲ ἀπολελύσθω ὁ θὴρ τῶν περιβόλων Χριστοῦ. καὶ μήτε ὡς Μωϋσῆς εἰς τὸ ὄρος ἀνίτω κυρίου τῆς νεφέλης εἴσω χωρῶν μήτε ὡς οἱ ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ τῆς γερουσίας πόρρω στηκέτω μήτε ἐμφωλευέτω κάτω που πρὸς τῇ ὑπωρείᾳ. τοῖς γὰρ στερροῖς λόγοις καὶ αὖθις καταλευσθήσεται. οὐδὲν γὰρ ὅτι τῶν ἀνοσίων οὐ πέπραχε· τὰ τῆς βασιλείας διεθορύβησε πράγματα, βασιλέων δυοῖν τὸν μὲν τολμήσας κατήνεγκε, τοῦ δὲ περιλελειμμένου ἀντέπραττεν ἐκείνῳ. καὶ τετυράννευκεν ἀκριβῶς καὶ γέγονε τῷ βασιλεῖ Ὀζίᾳ ἀντίθετος· ὁ μὲν γὰρ εἰς τὰ ἅγια εἰσελήλυθε θυμιάσων θεῷ, ὁ δὲ εἰς τὰ βασίλεια παρεισδέδυκε τῷ λόγῳ ἀποταξάμενος. χεῖρον οὗτος ἐκείνου τετόλμηκε. διὰ ταῦτα ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ μέρους ἀπηνθήκει τῇ λέπρᾳ, τῷ δὲ τὸ ξύμπαν σῶμα διαλελώβηται ὥστε καὶ χειρῶν ἐπιποιήτων δεῖσθαι, τῶν δακτύλων πρὸς τὸ κνᾶσθαι καὶ τῶν ὀνύχων ἀπειρηκότων· τάχα που καὶ οὗτος τήκει βώλακας γῆς ἰχῶρας ἀποξέων. ὥσπερ οὖν ὁ παλαιὸς Ἰσραὴλ αἰδοῖ τοῦ κράτους μὴ ἐλέγξας τὸν τολμητίαν τῶν θείων ἀπεστερήθη ὁράσεων, ἐκείνου δὲ τεθνηκότος τηνικαῦτα ἐφαντάζετο τῷ προφήτῃ κατὰ τὸν ἄρρητον ἐκεῖνον σχηματισμόν, οὕτως οὐδ' ἂν ἡμεῖς τὸν κύριον ἴδοιμεν, εἰ μὴ τὸν κατ' αὐτοῦ ἀπερυθριάσαντα τῆς παρεμβολῆς πόρρω ποιήσομεν. κατὰ γὰρ τὸν προφήτην πόρνης αὐτῷ ὄψις ἐγένετο, πρὸς πάντας ἀπηναισχύντηκεν, βασιλείαν καὶ ἱερωσύνην συνήγαγεν. ἡ μὲν γὰρ χεὶρ αὐτῷ τὸν σταυρὸν ἐσχημάτιζεν, ἡ δὲ γλῶσσα βασιλικῶς ἐψηφίζετο, τοὺς μὲν ὥπλιζε, τοὺς δὲ ἀνθώπλιζεν· ὡς πρὸς πόλεμον συνεκρότει στρατόπεδον. ὡς δὲ καὶ φιλότιμος τῷ μὲν ἐδίδου δόρυ, τῷ δὲ φάσγανον, τῷ δὲ παλτόν. τὸν μὲν ὑφῆπτε πρὸς τὸν θυμόν, τὸν δὲ ἀνεκίνει πρὸς πόλεμον, τάχα που καὶ τὰ στρατιωτικὰ ταῦτα ἐπιφθεγγόμενος· "ἐξέλιξόν