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
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 handled not by some executioner long devoted to the business and practiced in such things, but by someone ignorant of these things and far from being able to cut. And let the sword be made not of iron, but of lead or tin, things that bend quickly, more acted upon than acting. Let this man, then, bring down the blow upon the neck. But neither was the condemned man cut, and the lead was bent back, and on the whole the sword-bearer, growing dizzy at the unaccustomed task, let the sword drop from his hands. Why then, despite these things, would you expect a man who received the blow not to live, because he has suffered things similar to those who ought not to live, even if his neck was not cut? But is this not far from reason? Draw then the hypothesis to your example, and you will find nothing that is not similar. Then if some ignoble person struck us, if the manner of the blow was not one of those that deepens the cut or does not strike at all, should we for this reason be likened to the slain, and not rather to those cut by the leaden sword? But this is a new kind of death, to be dead while living and to have been deposed having suffered nothing of deposition. I would gladly ask you, the image-maker: is not death the end of every misfortune? After this, is not the body, left lifeless, insensible to any other punishment, if someone should wish to punish it? But no one would be induced to crucify again or coat with pitch that severed body, unless he clearly wished to fight with shadows. If then deposition can do this and is the end of all punishment, why after this was I, a dead man, exiled and receiving a second penalty, as if risen from a tomb? Or is it clear that, since the deposition, like an ignoble blow, was not driven in deep, I myself remained undeposed, but another blow, one of those that does not kill, succeeded it? And in a way the emperor both hinted at this and immediately showed it by his actions, that he let go of the deposition, but would penalize in another way. For what need was there to add other blows to the death? Or is the emperor so inhumane to us as not to spare my body even after the death, as you would call it, he who for everyone subtracts something from their deserved penalties and for no one at all has balanced the punishment with the sins, but some he has completely forgiven, who did not blaspheme in words, as I did according to my accuser, but even openly rebelled and went so far as to insult his sovereignty, while on others he inflicted some punishment, and this not serving his anger, but managing for the future? Or has the emperor's judgment been altered for me alone among all others, and is it some lot of mine to be unfortunate in every way and for there to be such an excess of evil as not even to have a comparison, but on the contrary to fall successively into opposite situations? For when the emperor alone opposed your judgments and practiced his argument against the priesthood, he alone conquered all and I was the one defeated. But now again, when he has changed his mind, and you resist, I am led into the same misfortune as before. And, as it seems, where it is necessary for me to be unfortunate, the emperor shows himself an emperor, but where I am to be unfortunate, he is no different from private citizens. And who other than I has experienced a heavier fate? And am I not alone the most unfortunate of all? But, in the name of God, if in my first examination the emperor's opinion had been reversed, if that were somehow possible, and of the words he now utters on my behalf he had uttered but one, would you not have immediately acquiesced, without investigating anything more than this? Is it not then absurd if, what you would have then accepted without question from the emperor, you now reject when he does the same? Or what new thing has the time in between introduced? And the fact that the emperor pardons me and does not plan to take vengeance from me, how do you understand it? And on what grounds
δυστυχήμασι καὶ τῷ ὑμῶν παραδείγματι, λόγου χάριν παρίτω τις ὡς κατάκριτος ἐφ' ᾧ τμηθῆναι τὸν τράχηλον. μεταχειριζέσθω δὲ
τὸ ξίφος μὴ δήμιός τις πρὸ πολλοῖς ἡμμένος τοῦ πράγματος καὶ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα γεγυμνασμένος, ἀλλά τις τῶν ἀμαθῶν ταῦτα καὶ
πόρρω τοῦ τεμεῖν. ἔστω δὲ καὶ τὸ ξίφος μὴ σιδήρου πεποιημένον, ἀλλὰ μολίβδου ἢ καττιτέρου, τῶν ταχὺ στρεφομένων μᾶλλον πασχόντων
ἢ δρώντων. ἐπενεγκάτω οὖν οὗτος κατὰ τοῦ τένοντος τὴν πληγήν. ἀλλ' οὔθ' ὁ κατάκριτος ἐτμήθη καὶ ὁ μόλιβδος ἀντεστράφη, καὶ
τὸ ὅλον ὁ ξιφηφόρος ἰλιγγιάσας πρὸς τὸ ἀσύνηθες ἀφῆκε τὸ ξίφος τῶν χειρῶν. τί οὖν παρὰ ταῦτα ἀξιώσεις τὴν πληγὴν δεξάμενον
ἀνθρωπον μὴ ζῆν, ὅτι ὅμοια τοῖς μὴ ζῆν ὀφείλουσι πέπονθε, καὶ εἰ μὴ ἐκόπη τὸν τράχηλον; ἀλλὰ πόρρω που τοῦτο λόγου ἐστίν;
ἕλκε οὖν ἐπὶ τὸ σὸν παράδειγμα τὴν ὑπόθεσιν, καὶ οὐδὲν εὑρήσεις ὃ μὴ προσόμοιον. εἶτα εἴ τις ἡμᾶς ἐξέπληξεν ἀγεννής, εἰ ὁ
τῆς πληγῆς τρόπος οὐ τῶν ἐμβαθυνόντων ἦν τὴν τομὴν ἢ οὐδὲ ὅλως πληττόντων, παρὰ ταῦθ' ἡμεῖς τοῖς ἀποκτανθεῖσιν ὁμοιωθείημεν
καὶ οὐχὶ μᾶλλον τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ μολιβδίνου ξίφους τμηθεῖσιν; ἀλλὰ καινὸς οὗτος θανάτου τρόπος τεθνάναι ζῶντα καὶ κεκαθάρθαι μηδέν
τι πεπονθότα καθάρσεως. Ἡδέως δ' ἄν σε τὸν εἰκονοποιὸν ἐρωτήσαιμι· οὐ παντὸς δυστυχήματος πέρας ὁ θάνατος; οὐ μετὰ ταῦτα ἄψυχον
καταλελειμμένον τὸ σῶμα ἀνεπαίσθητον πρὸς ἄλλην ἐστὶ κόλασιν, εἴ γέ τις κολάζειν ἐθέλοι; ἀλλ' οὐδεὶς ἂν προαχθείη τὸ τμηθὲν
ἐκεῖνο σῶμα ἀνασταυροῦν αὖθις ἢ καταπιττοῦν, εἰ μὴ προδήλως σκιαμαχεῖν βούλοιτο. εἰ οὖν τοῦτο καὶ ἡ κάθαρσις δύναται καὶ τέλος
ἐστὶ παντὸς τιμωρήματος, τί μετὰ ταῦτα ὁ νεκρὸς ὑπερωριζόμην ἐγὼ καὶ δεύτερον ἐλάμβανον ἐπιτίμιον, ὥσπερ ἐκ μνήματος ἀναστάς;
ἢ δῆλον ὡς, τῆς καθάρσεως οἷα πληγῆς ἀγεννοῦς μὴ ἐνεχθείσης εἰς βάθος, ἀκαθαίρετος μὲν αὐτὸς ἔμεινα, ἑτέρα δέ με τῶν οὐκ ἀποκτενουσῶν
πληγὴ διεδέξατο. τοῦτο δέ πως καὶ ὑπῃνίττετο καὶ ἔργοις εὐθὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑπενέφαινεν, ὡς τῆς μὲν καθαιρέσεως ἀφῆκεν, ἐπιτιμοίη
δὲ ἄλλως. τί γὰρ ἐχρῆν πρὸς τῷ θανάτῳ καὶ πληγὰς ἑτέρας ἐπιτιθέναι; ἢ τοσοῦτον ὁ βασιλεὺς ἡμῖν ἀφιλάνθρωπος ὡς μηδὲ μετὰ τόν,
ὃν ὑμεῖς φαίητε, θάνατον τοῦ ἐμοῦ φείδεσθαι σώματος, ὃς πᾶσι καὶ τῶν πρὸς ἀξίαν ὑφαιρεῖ τι ἐπιτιμίων καὶ οὐδενὶ τῶν πάντων
τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασιν ἐζυγοστάτησε τὴν ποινήν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς μὲν ἀφῆκε παντάπασιν, οὐ λόγοις ὡς ἐγὼ κατὰ τὸν κατήγορον βλασφημήσασιν,
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐς προὖπτον ἀντάρασι καὶ μέχρι τοῦ βασιλειᾶν ἐξυβρίσασι, τοῖς δέ τι κολάσεως προσετρίψατο, καὶ ταῦτα οὐχ ὑπηρετούμενος
τῷ θυμῷ, ἀλλὰ τὸ μέλλον οἰκονομούμενος; Ἢ ἐμοὶ μόνῳ μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως γνώμη ἠλλοίωται, καί μοι κλῆρός τίς
ἐστιν ἀτυχεῖν πάντοθε καὶ τοσαύτην ὑπερβολὴν εἶναι τοῦ κακοῦ ὡς μηδ' ἔχειν εἰκάσαι, ἀλλ' ἀντιθέτως ἐκ διαδοχῆς περιπίπτειν
τοῖς ἐναντίοις; ὁπότε γὰρ ὁ μὲν βασιλεὺς μόνος ἀντέκειτο ταῖς γνώμαις ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν κατὰ τῆς ἱερωσύνης λόγον ἐγύμναζε, μόνος
ἐνίκα πάντας καὶ τὴν ἡττῶσαν εἶχον ἐγώ. νῦν δ' αὖθις, ὁπηνίκα ὁ μὲν μεταβέβληται, ὑμεῖς δὲ ἀντιπίπτετε, ἐς ταὐτὸ πάλιν τῷ
προτέρῳ ἄγομαι ἀτυχήματι. καί, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὗ μὲν ἐμὲ δυστυχῆσαι χρή, βασιλεὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς δείκνυται, οὗ δ' ἀτυχῆσαι, οὐδὲν
τῶν ἰδιωτῶν διενήνοχε. καὶ τίς ἄλλος ἐμοῦ ἐχρήσατο βαρυτέρῳ τῷ δαίμονι; ὁ δ' ἀτυχέστατος πάντων οὐ μόνος ἐγώ; ἀλλὰ πρὸς θεοῦ,
εἰ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ μου ἐξετάσει μετέστραπτο, εἴ πως ἐνῆν, τὰ τῆς γνώμης τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ ὧν νῦν ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ἀφίησι φωνῶν μίαν ἀφῆκεν,
οὐκ ἂν εὐθὺς προσήκασθε, μηδέν τι τούτου πλέον περιεργασάμενοι; οὐκ οὖν ἄτοπον εἰ, ἃ τότ' ἀπολυπραγμονήτως προσεδέξασθε ἂν
διδόντος τοῦ βασιλέως, ταῦτα νῦν τοῦτο ποιοῦντος ἀπώσεσθε; ἢ τί μεταξὺ ὁ χρόνος ἐκαινοτόμησε; τὸ δ' ἀφιέναι μοι τὸν αὐτοκράτορα
καὶ τιμωρίαν μὴ βουλεύεσθαι παρ' ἐμοῦ λαβεῖν, πῶς νοεῖτε; καὶ ἐπὶ τίσι
