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
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, this is not far from the former accusations. But I set these things down along with the characters. He knew nothing, at least, of our doctrines, nor did he understand what he revered. Indeed, he needed to know much about the difference of substance and persons, but concerning nature and hypostasis he never discoursed, nor did he open any of the books about these things, nor did he inquire of the wiser men. And if anyone examined these things closely, he was rejected and despised and driven from the bema. No one ever saw him conversing with synodical canons or patristic ordinances. But immediately around dawn, one after another made noise at the courtyard door and in succession they all entered: the flower-dyer, the maker of variegated things, the perfume-bearer, the one who raises water, the one who easily moves the millstone, the one who constructs pyramids, the gold-assayer, the one who knows stones. And one bringing one thing, another another, would show it: one a cup of transparent and precious glass, another a Thericlean cup with its new names and extravagance of words, another a small shell or an assarion or a silver blackbird or a golden blackcap, uttering their own sounds by a mechanical breath, another a round perfume box studded with golden points, another a diamond or a lychnite or a carbuncle, and another pearls, either those perfectly spherical and most white or those shaped like a cone. And he was delighted by the beauty of some, by the shape of others, and by the mechanism of others. Then on top of these came certain astrologers and diviners, who knew nothing nor understood what kind of divination it was, but were trusted for other reasons, not from their art, but from their nation, because one was Illyrian, the other Persian; and this one knows the materials underlying the art, bdellium and tarrothos and the coral stone and the man-slaying sword, while the other knows how to examine accurately the bone about the shoulder. which things if he wished to learn, the charlatanry of Porphyry concerning such a subject would have sufficed for him instead of any other tongue; but because these things were written on skins or on certain scrolls, which some indeed call book-rolls, he both spat on them and sent them away. And just as he knew the other things which the law forbids one to know, so also he went about seeking the transformations of materials and he considered it a terrible thing, if he could not make bronze into silver, and silver into gold. Here, therefore, alone both Zosimos and Theophrastus were studied eagerly by him and the edition 'According to Operation' was sought after; for so the books are entitled. And putting the Ionian charm behind, he held the Abderite and Democritean treatise in greater esteem. And he had no other business than the formulas of silver-making. At any rate, molten silver and sandarach and the Magnesian stone and fire-resistant bodies, and gum and radish oil, were for him splendid and most venerable names instead of the first principles, instead of syllogisms, instead of proofs. So some things were dyed, others were transformed, and others were sought after; what is the rust-removal of bronze? and what the softening of iron and the making non-fluid of lead and the making non-brittle of tin? And what is 'geleb'? And how the yellowing? And everything was set in motion, but nothing was accomplished, but the iron was again iron and the bronze was gold only up to the color; for he did not know the principles nor did he measure. But what is it to me concerning these things? which I myself have long known, either alone or beyond others, and have rejected as nonsense. Except perhaps this brings blame to him, but it should in no way be brought up as a crime. But that he worked gold contrary to the established laws, secretly and in darkness, how could this not be registered on the public tablets? And what man occupied with these things would not be rightly indicted for public offenses? For not from
καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ πᾶσι χρῶμα ταὐτό, ὧν οὐδὲν ἐκεῖνον ἐκινήσατο ἢ ὑπηγάγετο; τὸ δὲ μηδέποτε μηδὲ τοῖς θειοτέροις τῶν λόγων προσομιλεῖν
μηδέ τι ἀνελίξαι δελτάριον, τοῦτο οὐ πόρρω τῶν προτέρων ἐγκλημάτων ἐστίν. ἀλλ' ἐγὼ μετὰ τῶν χαρακτήρων καὶ ταῦτα τίθεμαι.
Οὐδὲν γοῦν τῶν καθ' ἡμᾶς ᾔδει δογμάτων οὐδ' ὅ τι σέβοι ἠπίστατο. οὐσίας γε μὴν καὶ προσώπων πολλοῦ ἄρα αὐτῷ ἔδει εἰδέναι διαφοράν,
φύσεως δὲ πέρι καὶ ὑποστάσεως οὐδὲ διειλέχθη ποτὲ οὐδέ τι τῶν περὶ ταῦτα βιβλίων ἀνέπτυξεν οὐδὲ τῶν σοφωτέρων ἐπύθετο. εἰ
δέ τις ἠκρίβου ταῦτα, ἀπέρριπτό τε καὶ καταπεφρόνητο καὶ ἐξῶστο τοῦ βήματος. συνοδικοῖς κανόσιν ἢ πατρικαῖς διατάξεσιν οὐδ'
εἶδέ τις αὐτὸν προσωμιληκότα ποτέ. ἀλλ' εὐθὺς κατὰ τὸ περίορθρον ἄλλος ἐπ' ἄλλῳ ἐψόφει τὴν αὔλειον καὶ ἐφεξῆς πάντες εἰσῄεσαν,
ὁ ἀνθοβάφος, ὁ τῶν ποικίλων δημιουργός, ὁ ἀρωματοφόρος, ὁ μετεωρίζων τὸ ὕδωρ, ὁ τὸν μυλίτην λίθον ῥᾳδίως κινῶν, ὁ τὰς πυραμίδας
κατασκευάζων, ὁ χρυσογνώμων, ὁ τὰς λίθους εἰδώς. καὶ ἄλλος ἄλλο τι φέρων ἐδείκνυ, ὁ μὲν κύπελλον τῆς διαφανοῦς ὑέλου καὶ πολυτίμου,
ὁ δὲ Θηρίκλειον μετὰ τῶν καινῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ τῆς πολυτελείας τῶν λέξεων, ὁ δὲ κογχύλιον ἢ ἀσσάριον ἢ ἀργυροῦν κόττυφον ἢ χρυσοῦν
μελαγκόρυφον, ἰδίας ἱέντα φωνὰς ὑπὸ μηχανικοῦ πνεύματος, ὁ δὲ περιφερὲς ἄρωμα στίγμασι καθηλωμένον χρυσοῖς, ὁ δὲ ἀδάμαντα
ἢ λυχνίτην ἢ ἄνθρακα καὶ ἄλλος μαργαρίτας, ἢ τοὺς ἀκριβῶς ἐσφαιρωμένους καὶ λευκοτάτους ἢ τοὺς κατὰ κῶνον διεσχηματισμένους.
καὶ ἐτέρπετο τῶν μὲν τῷ κάλλει, τῶν δὲ τῷ σχήματι, τῶν δὲ τῇ μηχανῇ. ἀστρολόγοι δή τινες ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ μάντεις, τῶν οὐδὲν
μὲν εἰδότων οὐδ' ὅ τι μαντείας εἶδος ἐπισταμένων, πιστευομένων δὲ ἄλλως οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς τέχνης, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους, ὅτι ὁ μὲν
Ἰλλυριός, ὁ δὲ Πέρσης· καὶ οὗτος μὲν τὰς ὑποκειμένας τῇ τέχνῃ ὕλας ἐπίσταται, τὸ βδέλλιον καὶ τὸ τάρροθος καὶ τὸν κουράλιον
λίθον καὶ τὸ ἀνδροφόνον ξίφος, ὁ δὲ ὅ τι τὸ περὶ τὸν ὦμον ὀστοῦν ἀκριβῶς κατοπτεύει. ἅπερ εἴ γε μανθάνειν ἐβούλετο, ἤρκεσεν
ἂν αὐτῷ ἀντ' ἄλλης τινὸς γλώττης ἡ περὶ τὴν τοιαύτην πραγματείαν ἀγυρτεία τοῦ Πορφυρίου· ἀλλ' ὅτι ἐν διφθέραις ταῦτα ἐγέγραπτο
ἢ ἐν εἰληταρίοις τισίν, ἃ δὴ κεφαλίδας βιβλίων ἔνιοί φασιν, ἀπεπτύετό τε καὶ ἀπεπέμπετο. Ὥσπερ δὲ τἆλλα εἰδὼς ἃ νόμος εἰδέναι
<κωλύεται>, καὶ τὰς μεταβολὰς τῶν ὑλῶν περιῄει ζητῶν καὶ δεινὸν ἐποιεῖτο, εἰ μὴ τὸν μὲν χαλκὸν ἄργυρον, τὸν δὲ ἄργυρον χρυσὸν
ἀπεργάσαιτο. ἐνταῦθα τοίνυν μόνον Ζώσιμοί τε αὐτῷ ἐσπουδάζοντο καὶ Θεόφραστοι καὶ ἡ κατ' ἐνέργειαν ἐζητεῖτο ἔκδοσις· οὕτω
γὰρ ἐπιγέγραπται τὰ βιβλία. καὶ τὴν Ἰωνικὴν χάριν κατόπιν τιθεὶς τὴν Ἀβδηριτικὴν πραγματείαν καὶ ∆ημοκρίτειον ἐτίθετο περὶ
πλείονος. καὶ ἔργον αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἢ τὰ τῆς ἀσημοποιΐας συνθήματα. ὁ γοῦν κεχυμένος ἄργυρος καὶ ἡ σανδαράχη καὶ ἡ Μαγνησία λίθος
καὶ τὰ πυρίμαχα σώματα, τό τε κόμμι καὶ τὸ ῥεφάνινον ἔλαιον, ὀνόματα ἐκείνῳ λαμπρὰ καὶ ὑπέρσεμνα ἀντὶ τῶν πρώτων θεωρημάτων,
ἀντὶ συλλογισμῶν, ἀντὶ ἀποδείξεων. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐβάπτετο, τὰ δὲ μετεβάλλετο, τὰ δὲ ἐζητεῖτο· τίς μὲν ἡ τοῦ χαλκοῦ ἐξίωσις; τίς
δὲ ἡ τοῦ σιδήρου μάλαξις καὶ ἡ τοῦ μολύβδου ἀρρεύστωσις καὶ ἡ τοῦ καττιτέρου ἀτρίστωσις; τί δὲ τὸ γέλεβ; πῶς δὲ ἡ ξάνθωσις;
καὶ πάντα μὲν συνεκινεῖτο, ἀπετελεῖτο δ' οὐδέν, ἀλλ' ἦν ὁ σίδηρος αὖθις σίδηρος καὶ ὁ χαλκὸς χρυσὸς ἄχρι τοῦ χρώματος· οὐ
γὰρ ᾔδει τοὺς λόγους οὐδὲ ἐσταθμοῦτο. Ἀλλὰ τί μοι περὶ τούτων; ἃ πάλαι καὶ αὐτὸς εἰδὼς ἢ μόνος ἢ παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλου ὡς φλυαρίαν
ἀπέπτυσα. πλὴν τοῦτο μέμψιν αὐτῷ ἴσως ἔχει, οὐδαμῶς δ' ἐπαχθείη ὡς ἔγκλημα. ὅτι δὲ τὸν χρυσὸν παρὰ τοὺς καθεστηκότας νόμους
εἰργάζετο κεκρυμμένως καὶ ὑπὸ σκότῳ, τοῦτο πῶς οὐκ ἂν ἀπογραφείη ταῖς δημοσίαις κύρβεσι; καὶ τίς ἀνὴρ περὶ ταῦτα πραγματευόμενος
δημοσίων ἀδικημάτων <οὐκ> εἰκότως γράψαιτο; οὐ γὰρ ἐκ
