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
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 once entered the fray and chosen to be a satrap would also use the symbols of the satrapy. Therefore, he has no part with God, having chosen to be a satrap or king instead of a priest. Having dared these first things, he did not spare those that followed them, but shook the entire city. He became to the inhabitants like thunderbolts, like conflagrations, like whirlwinds. He came upon them suddenly like a tempest, devoured like a locust, destroyed like a cankerworm. He shook them like a wind, overwhelmed them like a wave; he insulted the blessed city itself. He took away its comeliness, the diadem of its beauty; he obscured the form of its buildings, he made it as from the beginning, he waged war openly against its fashioning hand, he set himself against its very guardian. He made its inhabitants victims of strife. And thus having routed us and run down the left wing and not sparing us up to the palisade, he turned to the right wing of the Lord and has destroyed His sanctuary. He insulted His chief apostles; the Forerunner from the wilderness—for this too almost escaped me—he treated in the same way as the leaders; he envied him his belt, he bewitched his camel's hairs, nor did he leave to him the beehive nor the wild drones, that they might work together for his food, but if there was any thicket or hollow rock, into which he had crept to rest, he both rolled this away and cut that down. Again Herodias and dancing and a banquet and the festival of the birthday and the new reward for the dance, the destruction of that temple; for it was not possible to behead him again. And do not think that I am ignorant, that not two or three of the divine temples, but many and established in many parts of the earth he has made plundered. But I do not wish to give full rein to the argument against him; for I care for the member, even if it is diseased; I pity it, even if it is alienated. For these reasons I hold my tongue and do not entirely give it free course against him. But since the argument concerning indifference still remains for me, having examined this part with you, I shall seal the accusation, not as bringing forward what is about to be said as charges against him, although most of it has such force, but in order that I might show him to be from his character and from his words and from his manners and from the rest of the conduct of his life a certain mechanic and artisan, or rather, no different from buffoons and jesters and so far removed from or opposed to the dignity of the high priesthood, as vice is from virtue. This at least we all know, that what the mind is to the soul, or the soul to the body, or God to both, this indeed the high priest is to the multitude of mankind. And just as the mind—and I mean not the intellectual illumination nor this external one, which philosophy indeed makes co-essential with the soul, but that from which this comes, the essential and absolute one—just as, then, that one is at once separate from the soul and present immaterially and intellectually and adorns it and, when it has turned to him, leads it up to the mind beyond, or rather to God, so it is necessary that he who is appointed to minister should both be exalted above the others in the circle of virtues and adorn them and turn them to himself and through himself as an intermediary lead them up to the Word and try to unite to God those who are so far apart and to stand as an example to the others, not only of precision in actions, but also in speaking and in moving and in whatever else is naturally in us or of us. And I do not say this, nor do I, as it were, compel the one honored with the dignity to completely transcend nature and to be utterly ignorant of himself and, like some intellectual nature, to be unyielding towards all and implacable. For I wish this for every
μοι τὸν Μακεδόνα, ἐπὶ δεξιὰ τὸ δόρυ, βάδην <ὁ> ἡμιλοχίτης, ὁ λοχαγὸς ἐπικάμφθητι." καὶ καινὸν οὐδὲν οὐδὲ ἄπιστον· ὁ γὰρ ἅπαξ
παρεμβεβληκὼς καὶ σατραπεύειν ἑλόμενος χρήσαιτ' ἂν καὶ τοῖς τῆς σατραπείας συμβόλοις. οὐκ ἔστιν οὖν αὐτῷ μερὶς πρὸς θεὸν ἀνθ'
ἱερατείας σατραπεύειν ἢ βασιλεύειν ἑλομένῳ. Ταῦτα δὴ τὰ πρῶτα τολμήσας οὐδὲ τῶν ἐφεξῆς ἐκείνοις ἐφείσατο, ἀλλὰ τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν
ἐδόνησε. γέγονε τοῖς ἐποίκοις ἀντὶ κεραυνῶν, ἀντὶ ἐμπρησμῶν, ἀντὶ συστροφῶν. ἐπῆλθεν αὐτοῖς ἀθρόον ὡσπερεὶ καταιγίς, κατέφαγεν
ὡς ἀκρίς, ὡς βροῦχος διελυμήνατο. ὡς πνεῦμα ἐπέσεισεν, ὡς κῦμα ἐπέκλυσεν· αὐτὴν τὴν εὐδαίμονα πόλιν καθύβρισεν. ἀφείλετο αὐτῆς
τὴν εὐπρέπειαν, τὸ τοῦ κάλλους διάδημα· ἠμαύρωσεν αὐτῇ τὴν τῶν οἰκημάτων μορφήν, πεποίηκεν ὡς τὸ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς, πεπολέμηκεν ἄντικρυς
πρὸς τὴν εἰδοποιὸν αὐτῆς χεῖρα, πρὸς τὸν πολιοῦχον αὐτὸν ἀντετάξατο. στάσεως τραυματίας τοὺς οἰκήτορας αὐτῆς ἀπειργάσατο.
καὶ οὕτως ἡμᾶς τροπωσάμενος καὶ τὸ ἀριστερὸν κέρας καταδραμὼν καὶ μὴ φεισάμενος ἄχρι τοῦ χάρακος ἐπὶ τὸ δεξιὸν τοῦ κυρίου
ἐτράπετο καὶ καθῄρηκεν αὐτοῦ τὸ ἁγίασμα. τοὺς πρώτους αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐξύβρισε· τὸν ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου Πρόδρομον-μικροῦ γάρ
με καὶ τοῦτο διέλαθε-τοῖς κορυφαίοις συγκατειργάσατο· ἐφθόνησεν αὐτῷ τῆς ζώνης, ἐβάσκηνε τῶν καμηλείων τριχῶν, οὐδὲ τὸν μελισσῶνα
τούτῳ ἀφῆκεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ἀγρίους κηφῆνας, ἵν' αὐτῷ τὴν τροφὴν συνεργάσωνται, ἀλλ' εἴ πού τις θάμνος ἢ πέτρα κοίλη, ἐφ' ἣν εἰσδεδυκὼς
ἀνεπαύετο, ταύτην τε μετεκύλισε κἀκείνην ἐξέτεμε. πάλιν Ἡρωδιὰς καὶ ὄρχησις καὶ συμπόσιον καὶ ἡ γενεσίων πανήγυρις καὶ ἡ καινὴ
ἀντίδοσις τῆς ὀρχήσεως, ἡ τοῦ νεὼ ἐκείνου κατάλυσις· οὐ γὰρ ἐνῆν αὖθις δειροτομεῖν. καὶ μή με οἰήσεσθε ἀγνοεῖν, ὡς οὐ δύο
ἢ τρεῖς τῶν θείων ναῶν, ἀλλὰ πολλοὺς καὶ πολλαχοῦ γῆς ἱδρυμένους ἀναρπάστους πεποίηκεν. ἀλλ' οὐ βούλομαι τὴν πᾶσαν αὐτῷ ἐφεῖναι
ἡνίαν τοῦ λόγου· περιέπω γὰρ τὸ μέλος, εἰ καὶ νενόσηκεν· οἰκτείρω, εἰ καὶ ἠλλοτρίωται. διὰ ταῦτα ἐπέχω τὴν γλῶτταν καὶ οὐ
πάνυ τι τῷ ῥεύματι ἐφίημι κατ' αὐτοῦ. Ἀλλ' ἐπεί μοι ὁ περὶ τῆς ἀδιαφορίας ἔτι λείπεται λόγος, καὶ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ μέρος συνεξετάσας
ὑμῖν τὴν κατηγορίαν ἐπισφραγίσομαι, οὐχ ὡς ἐγκλήματα τούτῳ ἐπάγων τὰ ῥηθήσεσθαι μέλλοντα, εἰ καὶ τὰ πλείω τοιαύτην εἴληχε
δύναμιν, ἀλλ' ἵν' ἐπιδείξαιμι τοῦτον καὶ ἀπὸ ἠθῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν τρόπων ἔκ τε τῆς ἄλλης αὐτῷ τοῦ βίου κατασκευῆς
βάναυσόν τινα καὶ χειρώνακτα, μᾶλλον δὲ βωμολόχων καὶ εὐτραπέλων ἀνδρῶν οὐδὲν διαφέροντα καὶ πρὸς ἀρχιερωσύνης ἀξίωμα τοσοῦτον
ἀφεστηκότα ἢ ἀντικείμενον, ὅσον πρὸς τὴν ἀρετὴν ἡ κακία. τοῦτο γοῦν ἴσμεν ἅπαντες, ὡς, ὅπερ ὁ νοῦς πρὸς ψυχὴν ἢ ψυχὴ πρὸς
σῶμα ἢ θεὸς πρὸς ἀμφότερα, τοῦτο δὴ καὶ ἀρχιερεὺς πρὸς τὸν πολὺν ἄνθρωπον. καὶ ὥσπερ ὁ νοῦς-λέγω δὲ οὐ τὴν νοερὰν ἔλλαμψιν
οὐδὲ τοῦτον δὴ τὸν θυραῖον, ὃν δὴ καὶ ἡ φιλοσοφία συνουσιοῖ τῇ ψυχῇ, ἀλλὰ τὸν ὅθεν οὗτος, τὸν οὐσιώδη τε καὶ ἀπόλυτον- ὥσπερ
οὖν ἐκεῖνος ἀφέστηκέ τε ὁμοῦ τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ πάρεστιν ἀΰλως καὶ νοερῶς καὶ κοσμεῖ ταύτην καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπιστραφεῖσαν πρὸς τὸν
ἐπέκεινα νοῦν ἀνάγει, μᾶλλον δὲ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, οὕτω δεῖ καὶ τὸν λειτουργεῖν τεταγμένον ὑπερανεστηκέναι τε τῶν ἄλλων τῷ κύκλῳ
τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ κοσμεῖν ἐκείνους καὶ ἐπιστρέφειν πρὸς ἑαυτὸν καὶ δι' ἑαυτοῦ μέσου πρὸς τὸν λόγον ἀναβιβάζειν καὶ πειρᾶσθαι
θεῷ συνιστᾶν τοὺς τοσοῦτον διεστηκότας καὶ παράδειγμα τοῖς ἄλλοις ἑστάναι, οὐ τῆς περὶ τὰς πράξεις μόνον ἀκριβείας, ἀλλὰ καὶ
τοῦ λέγειν καὶ τοῦ κινεῖσθαι καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο περὶ ἡμᾶς ἢ καθ' ἡμᾶς πέφυκε. καὶ οὐδὲ τοῦτό φημι οὐδὲ οἷον καταναγκάζω τὸν τετιμημένον
τῷ ἀξιώματι ὑπεράλλεσθαι πάντῃ τὴν φύσιν καὶ καθάπαξ ἑαυτὸν ἀγονοῆσαι καὶ οἷόν τινα νοερὰ φύσιν ἄθελκτον εἶναι πρὸς ἅπαντας
καὶ ἀμείλικτον. βούλομαι μὲν γὰρ τοῦτο παντὶ
