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

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 himself back to every race, to the Heracleidae, to the Pelopidae; and his grandfather and great-grandfather were Cyrus the Persian, Croesus the Lydian, Darius son of Hystaspes or of Arsames, the mothers of his mothers were priestesses of Hestia. On top of these were myths and portents; and a she-wolf with swollen breasts and offering her teats to the infants and a heavenly torch and a serpent sleeping with Olympias. But if ever he launched his discourse into an erotic narrative or, saying something else, he turned to speak about certain women, he would utter nothing more refined than what is heard at the crossroads nor would he change the word nor did modesty have any modesty nor was there any application of cosmetic powder, but nowhere the beauty of allegory so as to call "companion" one who sells her sexual favors and "to know" or "to draw near" or at least "to sleep with" for "to have intercourse," but naked words and nowhere a figure of speech, no suggestion, no emphasis, no art of speaking, no aposiopesis, no paralipsis, no speaking around the subject so as to indicate the core. But just as if he were pointing out the deed itself, so he would go through it with his speech, so that the majority would blush and not have anything they could say. And let no one accuse me of pettiness. For just as we know the sun traversing the heaven is a most pure light, if we should see it changing its brilliance a little, or its rays as if shimmering, or the white of its color changing to that of charcoal, we would immediately be suspicious and we would note the change as being against nature. So indeed, and if someone being a high priest then cheapens his character and adulterates his words, we take these things as a sign of his soul's disposition. For if the rule and the square preserved neither accuracy nor straightness, how could those who are measured against them preserve the proper form of the soul? For it is necessary for all to measure both word and deed and character and nod and movement and to establish them according to reason, but especially a high priest, from whom other measures get their existence as measures. Or how could I either spare my tongue or care for solemnity or for walking straight and not being bent when my model is corrupted, by which I am assigned to regulate myself? And in no way do I quibble over the majority of his faults, but as if superficially I touch upon his character and deeds and I remind those who know of his ways, on the one hand his indulgence and licentiousness, on the other his peevishness and harshness. At any rate, none of his servants served him for a full month, but as if in a chorus and a cycle they were moved and transferred, almost not turning around, but being replaced. For as soon as someone offered the cup, he was suspected as a poisoner. Therefore there were immediate beatings and bitter torments and a tight fetter and a heavy torment and one after another, and another after that one; and all were led away to death, one because he was laughing, another because he was scowling, and another because he did not mix the wine precisely and skillfully. And many of these gave in to the excess of abuses, so that they even plotted against him and poured poison for him in his mixed wine; and even if they had not done it, they were still suspected. They indeed paid the penalty, sufficient for suspicion or for the truth, for some changed their life under the very whips, while others, having thrust a sword against their own bowels, found slaughter more moderate than the beatings. See my character, how gentle it is, that I do not even make these things into accusations, but what would suffice for others for bitterness of speech, these things I have made into characteristics of his life. Therefore, that the man has neglected both all philosophy and the art of speaking and diction and rhythm, I do not accuse him, although I could have done this, but I take it as a sign of a soul uncharmed by beautiful things. For what else would charm the best soul than refined speech and a well-composed mind and fitting diction and beauty of words

Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέας ἐγεναλόγει καὶ τῶν ἔτι περαιτέρω, Ἡρικαπαίου φημὶ καὶ τοῦ Φάνητος καὶ τῆς Ὀρφικῆς ἐκείνης Νυκτός· καὶ πρὸς πᾶν αὑτὸν ἀνῆγε γένος, εἰς Ἡρακλείδας, εἰς Πελοπίδας· καὶ ἦν αὐτῷ πάππος τε καὶ ἐπίπαππος Κῦρος ὁ Πέρσης, Κροῖσος ὁ Λυδός, ὁ Ὑστάσπου ∆αρεῖος ἢ ὁ Ἀρσάμου, αἱ τῶν μητέρων μητέρες τῆς Ἑστίας ἱέρειαι. μῦθοι ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ τέρατα· καὶ λύκαινα σπαργῶσα τοὺς μαστοὺς καὶ ὑπέχουσα τὰς θηλὰς τοῖς βρέφεσι καὶ λαμπὰς οὐράνιος καὶ δράκων τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι συνευναζόμενος. εἰ δέ ποτε τὸν λόγον ἐμβάλοι εἰς διήγησιν ἐρωτικὴν ἢ ἄλλο τι λέγων περὶ ἐνίων ἐρεῖν ἐτράποιτο γυναικῶν, οὐδέν τι σεμνότερον τῶν ἐπὶ τῶν τριόδων ἐφθέγγετο οὐδὲ μετετίθει τοὔνομα οὐδ' εἶχεν αἰδῶ ἡ αἰδὼς οὐδὲ τρίμμα ἦν τὸ ψιμύθιον, ἀλλ' οὐδαμῇ τὸ τῆς ἀλληγορίας καλὸν ὥστε ἑταίραν εἰπεῖν τὴν τἀφροδίσια μισθαρνήσασαν καὶ γνῶναι ἢ πλησιάσαι ἢ κἂν γοῦν συγκαθευδῆσαι τὸ συνεληλυθέναι, ἀλλὰ γυμνὰ τὰ ὀνόματα καὶ οὐδαμοῦ σχηματισμός, οὐκ ἔνδειξις, οὐκ ἔμφασις, οὐ τέχνη τοῦ λέγειν, οὐκ ἀποσιώπησις, οὐ παράλειψις, οὐ τὰ πέριξ εἰπεῖν ὥστε τὸ μέσον ἐνδείξασθαι. ἀλλ' ὥσπερ αὐτὸ τοὖργον δεικνὺς οὕτω διῄει τῷ λόγῳ ὥστε τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐρυθριᾶν καὶ μὴ ἔχειν ὅ τι καὶ φθέγξαιντο. Καὶ μή μοί τις ἐγκαλοίη σμικρολογίαν. ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ διιππεύοντα ἥλιον φῶς ἀκραιφνέστατον ἐπιστάμενοι, εἰ βραχύ τι τὴν αἴγλην παραλλάττοντα ἴδοιμεν ἢ οἷον ὑποκυμαίνοντα τὰς αὐγὰς ἢ τὸ λευκὸν τοῦ χρώματος εἰς τὸ ἀνθρακῶδες μεταβαλόντα, ὑποπτεύοιμέν τε εὐθὺς καὶ τὸ παραλλάττον ὡς παρὰ φύσιν ἐπισημαινόμεθα. οὕτω δή, καὶ εἴ τις ἀρχιερεὺς ὢν ἔπειτα καπηλεύοι τὸ ἦθος καὶ νοθεύοι τοὺς λόγους, σημεῖον ταῦτα ποιούμεθα τῆς κατὰ ψυχὴν διαθέσεως. εἰ γὰρ ὁ κανὼν καὶ ὁ γνώμων οὔτε τὸ ἀκριβὲς σῴζοι οὔτε τὸ εὐθές, πῶς ἂν οἱ πρὸς ἐκεῖνα παραμετρούμενοι τὴν προσήκουσαν ἰδέαν τῆς ψυχῆς διασώσειαν; δεῖ μὲν γὰρ πάντας καὶ λόγον καὶ πρᾶξιν καὶ ἦθος καὶ νεῦμα καὶ κίνησιν μετρεῖν καὶ κατὰ λόγον ἱστᾶν, ἀρχιερέα δὲ μάλιστα, παρ' οὗ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις μέτροις τὸ εἶναι μέτροις ἐστί. ἢ πῶς ἂν ἐγὼ ἢ γλώττης φείσωμαι ἢ σεμνότητος φροντιῶ ἢ τοῦ βαδίζειν εὐθὺ καὶ μὴ κάμπτεσθαι τοῦ ὑποδείγματός μοι διεφθαρμένου, πρὸς ὃ ῥυθμίζειν ἐμαυτὸν ἐπιβέβλημαι; καὶ οὐδὲν τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ἐκείνου σμικρολογοῦμαι, ἀλλ' ὥσπερ ἐξ ἐπιπολῆς τῶν ἐκείνου ἠθῶν τε καὶ πράξεων ἅπτομαι καὶ τῶν τρόπων αὐτοῦ τοὺς εἰδότας ἀναμιμνήσκω, πῇ μὲν ἄνεσίν τε καὶ ἔκλυσιν, πῇ δὲ δυσκολίαν καὶ χαλεπότητα. οὐδεὶς γοῦν αὐτῷ τῶν θεραπόντων πληρεστάτου τοῦ μηνὸς ὑπηρέτησεν, ἀλλ' ὥσπερ ἐν χορῷ καὶ περιόδῳ μετεκινοῦντο καὶ μετετίθεντο, μονονοὺκ ἀναστρέφοντες, ἀλλ' ὑπαλαττόμενοι. ὁμοῦ γάρ τις τὸ κύπελλον ὤρεξε καὶ ὑπωπτεύθη ὡς φαρμακεύς. πληγαὶ οὖν εὐθὺς καὶ πικροὶ ἐτασμοὶ καὶ ἡ πέδη στενὴ καὶ βαρὺς ἐτασμὸς καὶ ἄλλος ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ ἐπ' ἐκείνῳ ἕτερος· καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ θάνατον πάντες ἀπήγοντο, ὁ μὲν ὅτι γελῴη, ὁ δ' ὅτι σκυθρωπάζοι, ὁ δὲ ὅτι μὴ κιρνῴη ἀκριβῶς καὶ ἐπιδεξίως. πολλοὶ δὲ τούτων πρὸς τὸ ὑπερβάλλον ἐνέδοσαν τῶν κακώσεων, ὥστε καὶ ἐπιβεβουλεύκασι καὶ τοῦ κράματος αὐτῷ κατέχεον φάρμακον· εἰ δὲ καὶ μὴ πεποιήκεσαν, ἀλλ' ὑπωπτεύθησαν. οἵ γε καὶ δίκην ἔδοσαν ἀρκοῦσαν ὑποψίας ἢ ἀληθείας, οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐπ' αὐταῖς δὴ ταῖς μάστιξι μετηλλάχασι τὴν ζωήν, οἱ δὲ ξίφος κατὰ τῶν σπλάγχνων ὠθήσαντες μετριωτέραν εὑρήκασι τὴν σφαγὴν τῶν πληγῶν. Ὁρᾶτέ μοι τὸ ἦθος, ὡς ἐπιεικές, ὅτι μηδὲ ταῦτα ποιοῦμαι ἐγκλήματα, ἀλλ' ἅπερ ἂν τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰς τὴν τοῦ λέγειν πικρίαν ἀρκέσειε, ταῦτ' ἐγὼ χαρακτῆρας ἐκείνῳ τοῦ βίου πεποίημαι. τὸ μὲν οὖν ἠμεληκέναι τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ φιλοσοφίας ἁπάσης καὶ τῆς περὶ τὸ λέγειν τέχνης καὶ λέξεως καὶ ῥυθμοῦ οὐκ ἐγκαλῶ μέν, καίτοι καὶ τοῦτο ἐξῆν, σημεῖον δὲ ποιοῦμαι ψυχῆς ἀθέλκτου πρὸς τὰ καλά. τί γὰρ ἄλλο θέλξειε τὴν ἀρίστην ἢ λόγος διηκριβωμένος καὶ νοῦς συγκείμενος εὖ καὶ λέξις ἁρμόττουσα καὶ ὀνομάτων κάλλος