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 [...] as is reasonable and not excessively disdainful of his condition must be present in the example, so that by his own model he might persuade the rest to be moderate towards virtue. But he—I am speaking to you who know—as if appointed to be a mountebank, not to be a priest, as soon as he had first entered the sanctuary and approached the holy table was seen laughing and chattering, when he ought to have shuddered and been afraid, because he had drawn near to God with the body. Thus indeed, even after this he showed himself at the sacred rites themselves, at the great altar; but the sitting upon the colt, the wonderful triumph of my Jesus, which he indeed first achieved for great trophies, he considered a public disgrace. "For gladly would I," he says, "on this occasion both wave from on high with my hands and smile gently." But if ever he forgot to laugh, he was filled with anger and madness. And approaching the inner sanctuary with that holy vestment and tiara, and escorted on both sides by the symbolic orders, and being led like a god, as it were, to the inner heaven and taken up from the earth, he was both sawn asunder with rage, and he would bark at one, push away another, and for the time would either harshly dismiss a suppliant or pass by one prostrating himself at his feet as if he were nothing. And thus he would come into communion with God, if one might even dare to say this. But if someone had once offended him, when he happened to be ten years old more or less, and was being examined with the great multitude, then came the wrath and the deep-seated grudge and the unforgettable memory; and as often as he saw the man, he would recall and recount it, and there was no appeasement nor propitiation from anywhere. For the one perhaps even offered supplication and brought up the long passage of time and the very neglect and immaturity of his thought, but for the other these things served as kindling for his anger. And there is no one at all who, being considered an adversary, has found him merciful. Indeed, he would blame many of those against whom he bore a grudge for this: that forty cycles before, while passing through this narrow street or these lanes, they had not greeted or honored him; and after so many years the men were paying the penalty to the high priest for their silence. And if one of these was enrolled among the clergy, he was immediately driven out of all the churches and excommunicated, as if he had done something forbidden by the law. But if he happened to be of the senatorial council, he would prosecute him with indictments for illegal acts. And as often as he met with the ruler, he demanded that the man be scourged and driven from the senate and made to stand with the condemned. And having once cast an evil eye on his life, he would add one evil after another. So great a burden was laid upon those against whom he bore a grudge. He loved no one at all, nor can one say that he was hostile to some men, but attached to others; rather, he was so boorish in character and difficult as to appropriate to himself neither his close relatives, nor those who had long lived with him, nor his neighbors, nor those who had long ago consecrated him, nor those who had honored him exceedingly, and to court true friendship; but even if someone shared a common cup with him, or conversed with him, or exalted him with eulogies, he was numbered among his greatest enemies. And everyone who associated with him was suspect to him, even if he gave no reason to be suspected. But his wife was slandered by him because she was not adorned, and his child because he was slow of speech, and his servant because he was a runaway, and this very man because he knew nothing of what was going on. For the quiet man was slandered by him as an idiot, the quick-witted man as both a busybody and a meddler, the magnificent man as a boaster, the man skilled in words as both superfluous and useless. He did not know his distant relatives; his closest, he either made his father to be of another family or his mother to be illegitimate. but himself alone from

ἀρχιερεῖ καὶ συνεύχομαι, ἀλλὰ τὸ κρᾶμα καὶ τὸ συμπεφυκὸς ἡμῖν ἔλυτρον ἐπιστρέφει πρὸς ἑαυτὸ μετεωριζόμενον ἄνω τὸν νοῦν. τὸ γοῦν [...] ὅσον εἰκὸς καὶ τὸ μὴ λίαν τὴν συνθήκην ὑπερφρονοῦν προσεῖναι τῷ παραδείγματι δεῖ, ἵνα τῷ καθ' ἑαυτὸν ὑποδείγματι μετριάζειν πρὸς ἀρετὴν τοὺς λοιποὺς πείσειεν. Ὁ δὲ-εἰδόσιν ὑμῖν τοὺς λόγους ποιοῦμαι-ὥσπερ ἀγυρτεύειν τεταγμένος, οὐχ ἱερατεύειν, ὁμοῦ τε πρώτως τοῦ βήματος ἐντὸς ἐγεγόνει καὶ τῇ ἱερᾷ τραπέζῃ προσήγγισε καὶ γελῶν ὦπτο καὶ στωμυλλόμενος, δέον πεφρικέναι καὶ δειλιᾶν, ὅτι θεῷ μετὰ τοῦ σώματος πεπλησίακεν. οὕτω γοῦν καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐδείκνυτο πρὸς αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἱεροῖς, πρὸς τῷ μεγάλῳ βήματι· τὴν δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ πώλου καθέδραν, τὸν θαυμάσιον τοῦ ἐμοῦ Ἰησοῦ θρίαμβον, ὃν δὴ πρῶτα ἐπὶ μεγάλοις τροπαίοις κατήνεγκε, δημοσίαν αἰσχύνην ἡγεῖτο. "ἡδέως γὰρ ἄν", φησιν, "ἐπὶ τούτῳ ταῖς <χερσὶν> ἀφ' ὕψους ἐννεύσαιμί τε καὶ ἁπαλὸν προσγελάσαιμι". εἰ δέ ποτε τοῦ γελᾶν ἐπελέληστο, θυμοῦ καὶ μανίας ἐπίμπλατο. καὶ προσιὼν τοῖς ἀδύτοις μετὰ τῆς ἱερᾶς ἐκείνης περιβολῆς καὶ τῆς κιδάρεως καὶ δορυφορούμενος ἑκατέρωθεν ταῖς συμβολικαῖς τάξεσι καὶ οἷα δὴ θεὸς πρὸς τὸν ἐνδότερον ἀγόμενος οὐρανὸν καὶ ἀπὸ γῆς ἀναλαμβανόμενος θυμῷ τε διεπρίετο καὶ τὸν μὲν ὑλάκτει, τὸν δὲ ἀντώθει, τὸν δὲ ἱκέτην τέως ἢ σκληρῶς ἀπεπέμπετο ἢ προκυλινδούμενον τῶν ποδῶν ὡς οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα παρῄει. καὶ οὕτως εἰς ὁμιλίαν θεῷ συνεγίνετο, εἴ γέ τις καὶ τοῦτο τολμῴη ἐρεῖν. εἰ δέ τις αὐτῷ ἅπαξ ποτὲ προσκεκρούκει, ὁπότε δεκέτης πλέον ἢ ἔλασσον ἐτύγχανεν ὤν, καὶ τῷ πολλῷ δήμῳ συνεξητάζετο, ἡ μῆνις ἐνταυθοῖ καὶ ὁ ἐγκείμενος κότος καὶ ἡ ἀνεπίληστος μνήμη· καὶ ὁσάκις ἴδοι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀνιστόρει καὶ ἀνεμίμνησκε καὶ οὐδεμία οὐδαμόθεν οὔτ' ἀπομείλιξις οὔτ' ἐξιλέωσις. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἴσως καὶ ἱκετηρίαν ἐτίθει καὶ τὸν μακρὸν χρόνον προὐβάλετο καὶ τὴν ὀλιγωρίαν αὐτὴν καὶ τὸ ἀτελὲς τοῦ φρονήματος, τῷ δὲ ὑπεκκαύματα ταῦτα ἐτύγχανε τῆς ὀργῆς. καὶ οὐκ ἔστι τῶν πάντων οὐδείς, ὃς τετύχηκεν αὐτοῦ ἵλεω ὑπειλημμένος διάφορος. πολλοῖς γοῦν, ὧν ἐμνησικάκει, καὶ τοῦτο ἐπῃτιᾶτο, ὅτι μὴ πρὸ τεσσαράκοντα κύκλων τόνδε τὸν στενωπὸν διοδεύοντες ἢ τάσδε τὰς ἀγυιὰς προσεφώνησαν ἢ τετιμήκασι· καὶ μετὰ τοσούτους οἱ ἄνδρες ἐνιαυτοὺς δίκας ἐδίδοσαν τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ σιωπῆς. καὶ εἰ μέν τις τούτων τῷ κλήρῳ κατείλεκτο, πασῶν εὐθὺς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἀπηλαύνετο καὶ ὥσπερ τι τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων τῷ νόμῳ δεδρακὼς ἀφωρίζετο. εἰ δὲ τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς ἐτύγχανεν ὤν, γραφαῖς αὐτὸν παρανόμων ἐδίωκε. καὶ ὁσάκις τῷ κρατοῦντι ἐντύχοι, μαστιγοῦν ἠξίου τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀπελαύνειν τῆς γερουσίας καὶ μετὰ τῶν κατακρίτων ἱστᾶν. καὶ ἅπαξ αὐτῷ τῆς ζωῆς βασκήνας ἄλλο ἐπ' ἄλλῳ προσετίθει κακόν. τοσοῦτον ἄχθος, οἷς ἐμνησικάκει, ἐπεπεφόρτιστο. ἐφίλει δὲ τῶν πάντων οὐδένα, οὐδ' ἔστιν εἰπεῖν τινα, ὅτι τοῖς μὲν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπηχθάνετο, τοῖς δὲ προσέκειτο, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτον ἦν σκαιὸς τὸ ἦθος καὶ δύσκολος ὡς μήτε τοὺς ἐγγὺς τοῦ γένους μήτε τοὺς πάλαι τούτῳ συνῳκηκότας, μὴ τοὺς ἐν γειτόνων, μὴ τοὺς πάλαι καθιερώσαντας, μὴ τοὺς ὑπερβαλλόντως τιμήσαντας προσοικειώσασθαι καὶ ἀληθῆ φιλίαν μνηστεύσασθαι, ἀλλὰ κἂν εἴ τις αὐτῷ κοινοῦ μετεῖχε κρατῆρος, κἂν προσωμίλει, κἂν ἐγκωμίοις ἐσέμνυνε, μετὰ τῶν ἐχθίστων κατηριθμεῖτο. καὶ ὕποπτος αὐτῷ πᾶς συγγινόμενος, κἂν εἰ μηδὲν ἐδίδου ὥστε ὑποπτεύεσθαι. ἀλλ' ἡ γυνὴ αὐτῷ διεβάλλετο ὅτι μὴ κοσμοῖτο, καὶ τὸ παιδίον ὅτι τὴν γλῶττάν ἐστιν ἀφυές, καὶ ὁ οἰκέτης ὅτι δραπέτης, καὶ αὐτὸς οὗτος ὅτι μηδὲν εἰδείη τῶν γιγνομένων. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀπράγμων ὡς ἠλίθιος αὐτῷ διεβάλλετο, ὁ εὐστραφὴς τὴν ψυχὴν ὡς πολυπράγμων τε καὶ περίεργος, ὡς ἀλαζὼν ὁ μεγαλοπρεπής, ὁ περὶ λόγους ὡς περιττός τε καὶ ἄχρηστος. τοὺς πόρρω τῶν συγγενῶν οὐκ ᾔδει, τοὺς ἔγγιστα ἢ τὸν πατέρα ἠλλοτρίου τοῦ γένους ἢ τὴν μητέρα ἐποίει παρέγγραπτον. ἑαυτὸν δὲ μόνον ἀπὸ