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
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 more slowly than a sea-monster, and having drawn a breath in summer, you uttered it in winter, moving your tongue with effort like some millstone, and often leaving your mouth open, like oysters warmed by the sun’s rays, and if some crab had walled up the joining of your lips with pebbles, you would have been seen gaping forever, and in this alone a sea-creature among land-dwellers? But the guardian of the law? I do not say this by way of comparing him to you—may I never be so out of my mind—with whom I would be ashamed to compare even an ox, but adding what is lacking in the argument. In speaking he is no less powerful in Catonian vigor, and in rhetorical eloquence he is more renowned than all others. but he advanced in his studies to the point of seeming to be a sophist, and he cleansed his tongue, but left his mind unaided. But philosophy is the aid of the mind, of which he was educated to the highest degree in its other parts, I mean the demonstrative method, and the understanding of nature, and all that moves according to it, and also the comprehension of celestial phenomena and of things beyond perception, the theory through the mind, and the rest, so that I do not list one by one the things in which she takes pride. But admiring this part of it more, he embraced the practical, and it has reference to character, and it adorns the inner man, now joining from the senses. And of its mathematical part, did he grasp it up to the point of contact, but not of section, so that I too might speak mathematically when making my argument about these things? Did he not comprehend the works of Euclid, and discover some things, and complete others? But if you yourself do not know these things, it is nothing new, you who do not even know what a line is, nor if it is composed of parts or happens to be divisible infinitely, much less would you know the side of a hexagon and a decagon, and how the pentagon squared is equal in power to these. But I know that he has explained a theorem of the deeper parts of geometry, and Egypt, to which the thing theorized was sent, knows what was explained. It was how similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their corresponding sides of the duplicate, having the explanation in another way than is commonly said. And of your political art of the laws, which holds together both earthly and heavenly things, as you yourself, I think, would boast, the incomprehensible and divine, did he not, having grasped it more than others, arrive at its end, and show what it is, if it is anything, more by having comprehended it, than you by bearing witness to its incomprehensibility? Did he not fill the judicial dignity of the judicial thrones, breathing against you judges at times and interpreting the hard-to-speak parts of the laws, and handing down what was known in writing, having what is proven as lawful, but what kind of things are proven and from what they are composed? Before you could string together two or three chapters of the laws, did this man not recite whole titles from memory, remembering them with natural talent, interpreting them aptly, and reconciling them supernaturally? But O what could I say to you, being such and so mad? Were you not the one who knew the laws best and was clever at interpreting them, of which political affairs had greater need, you were despised by judges, rulers, and emperors alike, and were considered a useless burden on the earth, and you were an occasion for laughter to all, made sport of by jesters and mimes, scratching your jaw at everything, and quickly forgetting, then also falling amazingly silent so that you might gather your memory? But this man was conceived and did the opposite of these things, being considered worthy of the throne of thrones before his throne and to preside after his throne. Grasping political subjects as no other, and cutting and dividing them most accurately into fine points, and applying to all matters laws that were suitable and apt. But because in a vigorous body and before his time he accomplished these things, for these reasons to you both of laws and of the other things
φωνῆς, οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῦτο ἀπαξιοῦται τῇ τέχνῃ, καὶ στροφῇ γλώττης εὐρύθμῳ, σὺ τάχα μόνον αὐτῷ πλησιάσειας, ὃς γε ἀργότερον μὲν
ἢ τὸ θαλάσσιον κῆτος ἀνέχαινες, θέρους δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα κινήσας, χειμῶνος ἐποίεις τὴν προφοράν, ὥσπερ τινὰ μυλιαῖον λίθον βίᾳ
τὴν γλώσσαν μετακινῶν, ἀνεῳγὸς δὲ πολλάκις τὸ στόμα ἐῶν, ὥσπερ τὰ ὄστρεια ταῖς ἡλιακαῖς ἀκτῖσι θαλπόμενα, καὶ εἴγε καρκῖνός
τις ψηφίσι τὰς τῶν χειλέων συμβολὰς ἀπετείχιζε, μέχρι παντὸς ἂν ὤφθης χασμώμενος, καὶ τοῦτο μόνον τοῖς χερσαίοις θαλάττιος;
Ἀλλ' ὁ νομοφύλαξ; οὐ παραβάλλων δέ σοι τοῦτον φημί-μὴ οὕτω φρενῶν ἐκσταίην-ᾧ καὶ τὸν βοῦν αἰσχυνοίμην, τῷ λόγῳ δὲ τὸ ἐνδέον
ἐπισυνάπτων. Κατωνικῆς μὲν εὐτονίας οὐδὲν ἧττον ἰσχύει τῷ λέγειν, ῥητορικῇ δὲ εὐγλωττίᾳ πάντων μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων εὐδοκιμεῖ.
ἀλλὰ μέχρι τοῦ σοφιστὴς εἶναι δοκεῖν προῆλθεν ἐν τοῖς μαθήμασι, καὶ τὴν μὲν γλῶσσαν ἐκάθηρε, τὸν δὲ νοῦν εἴασεν ἀβοήθητον.
φιλοσοφία δὲ τοῦ νοῦ ἡ βοήθεια, ἧς τἆλλα μὲν εἰς ἄκρον ἐξεπαιδεύθη, ἀποδεικτικήν τέ φημι μέθοδον, καὶ φύσεως κατανόησιν, καὶ
ὅσα κατὰ ταύτην κινεῖται, ἔτι δὲ μετεώρων κατάληψιν καὶ τῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν αἴσθησιν, τὴν διὰ νοῦ θεωρίαν, καὶ τἆλλα, ἵνα μὴ καθ'
ἕκαστον λέγω οἷς ἐκείνη σεμνύνεται. τοῦτο δὲ μᾶλλον ταύτης τὸ μέρος θαυμάσας πρακτικὴν ἠγκαλίσατο, καὶ πρὸς τὸ ἦθος κέκτηται
τὴν ἀναφοράν, καὶ κοσμεῖ τὸν ἐντὸς ἄνθρωπον τὸ νῦν συνάπτων ἀπὸ τῆς αἰσθήσεως. τοῦ δὲ μαθηματικοῦ ταύτης ἆρα μέχρις ἁφῆς,
οὐχὶ δὲ τομῆς ἥψατο, ἵνα μαθηματικῶς καὶ αὐτὸς εἴποιμι περὶ τούτων τὸν λόγον ποιούμενος; οὐχὶ τὰ μὲν τῶν Εὐκλείδου κατέλαβε,
τὰ δὲ ἐξεῦρε, τὰ δὲ ἀνεπλήρωσεν; εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτὸς ταῦτα ἐπίστασαι, καινὸν οὐδέν, ὅς οὐδὲ γραμμὴν ὅ τί ἐστιν οἶδας, οὐδ' εἰ συνέστηκεν
ἔκ τινων ἢ εἰς ἄπειρα τυγχάνει διαιρετή, πολλοῦ γε δέῃ ἑξαγώνου καὶ δεκαγώνου εἰδέναι πλευράν, καὶ ὡς ἰσοδυναμεῖ ταύταις τετραγωνιζομένη
ἡ πεντάγωνος. ἀλλ' ἔγωγε οἶδα τοῦτον καὶ θεώρημα τῶν βαθυτέρων γραμμικῆς ἑρμηνεύσαντα, καὶ οἶδε τὸ ἑρμηνευθὲν Αἴγυπτος ᾗ παρεπέμφθη
τὸ θεωρούμενον. ἢν δ' ὅπως τὰ ὅμοια τρίγωνα πρὸς ἄλληλα ἐν διπλασίονι λόγῳ ἐστὶ τῶν ὁμιλικίτων πλευρῶν τοῦ διπλασίονος, ἄλλον
τρόπον ἢ ὃν λέγεται τὴν ἐξήγησιν ἔχοντος. Τῆς δὲ σῆς πολιτικῆς τέχνης τῶν νόμων, ἢ καὶ τὰ ἐπίγεια συνέχει καὶ τὰ οὐράνια,
ὡς αὐτὸς οἶμαι, κομπάσειας, τῆς ἀλήπτου καὶ θείας, ἆρ' οὐχὶ μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων ἁψάμενος, εἰς τέλος ἀφίκετο, καὶ μᾶλλον αὐτὴν
ἐκ τοῦ κατειλῆφθαι εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἔδειξεν, ἢ σὺ δὲ προσμαρτυρῶν ταύτῃ τὸ ἄληπτον; οὐ τῶν δικαστικῶν θρόνων δικαστικὸν ἐπλήρου
ἀξίωμα, ἀντιπνέων ὑμῖν ἔστιν οὗ τοῖς δικάζουσι καὶ διερμηνεύων τῶν νόμων τὰ δύσφραστα, γράμμασί τε ἐγνωσμένα παραδιδούς, νόμιμον
μὲν τὸν ἀποδεικνύμενον ἔχουσι, τὰ δὲ ἀποδεικνύμενα οἷα καὶ ἐξ οἵων συγκείμενα; οὐ πρὶν ἢ σὲ δύο ἢ τρία τῶν νόμων συνεῖραι
κεφάλαια, τίτλους ὅλους οὗτος διὰ στόματος ἔφερεν, εὐφυῶς μὲν ἀπομνημονεύων, προσφυῶς δὲ ἑρμηνεύων, ὑπερφυῶς δὲ συμβιβάζων;
ἀλλ' ὦ τί δ' ἂν εἴποιμί σε οὕτως ἔχοντα καὶ οὕτω μαινόμενον; οὐχὶ σὺ μὲν ὁ ἄριστα τοὺς νόμους εἰδὼς καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι τούτους
δεινός, οὗ μᾶλλον ἔχρῃζε τὰ πολιτικὰ πράγματα, σὺν δικασταῖς ὁμοῦ σὺν ἄρχουσι καὶ βασιλεῦσι καταπεφρόνησο καὶ γῆς ἄχθος ἐλογίζου
ἐτώσιον, ἀφορμὴ δὲ πᾶσιν ὑπέκεισο γέλωτος γελοιασταῖς καὶ μίμοις παιζόμενος, τὴν γένυν κνώμενος ἐπὶ πᾶσι, καὶ ταχὺ μὲν ἐπιλανθανόμενος,
εἶτα καὶ ἐκπλήκτως σιγῶν ἐφ' ᾧ τὴν μνήμην ἀθροίσειας; οὗτος δὲ τἀναντία τούτων ὑπείληπτό τε καὶ ἕδρα, πρὸ τοῦ θρόνου τῶν θρόνων
ἐπάξιος λογιζόμενος καὶ μετὰ τὸν θρόνον τοῦ προκαθέζεσθαι. ἁπτόμενος μὲν ὡς οὐκ ἄλλος τῶν πολιτικῶν ὑποθέσεων, τέμνων δὲ εἰς
λεπτὰ καὶ διαιρῶν ἀκριβέστατα, νόμους τε πᾶσιν ἐπάγων οἰκείους προσφυεῖς. Ἀλλ' ὅτι ἐν ἀκμαίῳ τῷ σώματι καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἡλικίας
ταῦτα κατώρθωσε, διὰ ταῦτά σοι καὶ νόμων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων
