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
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, having this fine offspring in your place, this father, a delight to the heart and a diversion for the soul, for it resembles your character and is truly its father's. For both the composition of the words—how else could I put it, alas for the incongruity and the harshness—and the interpretation of the phrasing, as it is excessively burdensome and earthly, and resembling far too much snakes with puffed-out cheeks, moving with a heavy drag and an exceedingly ponderous train, and how excessively it has been embellished with figures of speech. Let not the children of the Hellenes be too proud for having discovered or fashioned matter, and for having declared it to be without quantity, without quality, without idea and without form, and both not being, and yet being, the one in actuality, the other in its potentiality. For behold, the occasion has spontaneously shown us another matter, the writing of this insolent man, truly a matter and a more material offspring of a materialistic mind, without idea and form and alien to artistic shape. How could I express your fine sentiment, or rather, how could I escape the hearing of it, which is diametrically opposed to the songs of the Sirens, yet has the same result? For they destroy by their sweetness, but this kills the hearer by its unpleasantness; for it is truly the braying of an ass or something even more grim and burdensome. Hermogenes the rhetorician, then, in organizing the art of rhetoric, everywhere used Demosthenes as an example of how one must employ the arts or their arrangements. But I, if I should not seem burdensome to you, O young men, by making a counter-display of my art, will set forth another rhetoric, and will set forth his speech as a truly new paradigm of how one ought to write, so that both from the setting forth of the Demosthenic examples, and from the refutation of the delirious ravings of Ophrydas, the matters of your learning may proceed excellently. But if someone, possessing such a nature and learning, composes some writings against Demosthenes—for permit me to say something for the occasion, since even if we search for Aeschines we shall not find him—is he not truly distraught and mad? But if the writer were one of those now in their prime, we would have given pardon on account of his age; but since he is one of those who have ceased, having himself destroyed his own ambition, for he never even acquired it, should he not be thrust into a pit? And if he were being examined in political matters, and then, as is likely, out of rivalry with a competitor, had contentiously used such arguments, perhaps no one would have condemned him or been bitterly angry. But since you have put yourself far from laws and courts, as it seemed up to a point, and bringing yourself have numbered yourself among our Nazirites, then like a night bird, having started to slander politicians, he was caught, and writings, to have brought forth insolences and to oppose royal decrees, would not someone of sound mind, even in image and shadow, punish you, washing you with insults and mocking you and writing fitting things in reply? Did the circle of Sisoes and Agathon urge your mind to these things? Did the monks in Scetis and in Sinai teach you these things? whose withdrawal you imitated, but whose life you did not emulate, or rather, you played that one part precisely, but did not precisely hate this other one? Is this how one taught by the Lord behaves? Whichever you wish, whether that of the shadow or that of the truth, and I will add this third one, the political; of which the one does not permit insolence at all, the other adds even more, just as it is accustomed to do in other matters, while the other even imposes a fine on the insolent man. But you, my good man, having been struck on one cheek, did you offer the other to the one who struck you, or when insulted did you entreat, or when blasphemed did you bless in return? So you initiate insolence, and not even being younger, as the poet says enigmatically, but older than an aged deer, and this towards one who has not disagreed with you
ὅ φασιν αὐτοφυεῖς αὐτὰς γεγενῆσθαι. Ἀλλ' οὐ δεκτέα σοι ταῦτα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτό σε καὶ πάλιν γελάσομεν, τὸ καλόν γέννημα ἀντί
σου τοῦ πατρὸς θυμῆρες καὶ ψυχαγωγὸν ἔχοντες, ἔοικε γάρ σου τῷ χαρακτῆρι καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς τοῦ πατρός ἐστιν. ἢ τε γὰρ συνθήκη
τῶν λέξεων-πῶς γὰρ ἂν ἄλλως εἴποιμι, βαβαὶ τῆς ἀναρμοστίας καὶ τῆς τραχύτητος-ἥ τε τῆς φράσεως ἑρμηνεία, ὡς λίαν δυσαχθής
τις καὶ γεηρά, καὶ τοῖς παρείοις προσεοικυῖα παρὰ πολὺ ὄφεσι, παχεῖ τῷ ὁλκῷ κινουμένη καὶ ἐπαχθεῖ λίαν τῷ ἐπισύρματι, ὡς λίαν
δὲ καὶ τοῖς σχήμασι κεκαλλώπισται. Ἑλλήνων παῖδες μὴ μέγα φρονείτωσαν τὴν ὕλην εὑρόντες ἢ ἀναπλάσαντες, καὶ μόνην ἄποσον,
ἄποιον, ἀνείδεόν τε καὶ ἀσχημάτιστον ἀποφήναντες, καὶ μὴ ὂν μέν, ὂν δὲ ὅμως, τὸ μὲν κατὰ τὴν ἐντελέχειαν, τὸ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ταύτης
πρόοδον. ἰδοὺ γὰρ αὐτομάτως ἑτέραν ἡμῖν ὕλην ἔδειξεν ὁ καιρός, τὸ τοῦ ὑβριστοῦ σύγγραμμα, ὕλην ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ὑλώδους νοὸς
ὑλικώτερον γέννημα, ἰδέας ἄτερ καὶ σχήματος καὶ μορφῆς ἀλλότριον τεχνικῆς. πῶς ἄν σου τὸ καλὸν ἐκφράσαιμι φρόνημα, μᾶλλον
δὲ πῶς ἂν τὴν τούτου ἀκοὴν διαφύγοιμι, ἐκ διαμέτρου μὲν τοῖς σειρηνίοις ἔχουσαν μέλεσι, τὸ δ' αὐτὸ ἀποτέλεσμα; αἱ μὲν γὰρ
τῷ ἠδεῖ διαφθείρουσιν, ἡ δὲ τῷ ἀηδεῖ θανατοῖ τὸν ἀκροατήν· ὄνειος γάρ τις ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐστιν ὀγκηθμὸς ἢ εἴ τι βαρυθυμότερόν τε
καὶ ἐπαχθέστερον. Ἑρμογένης μὲν οὖν ὁ ῥήτωρ τὴν ῥητορικὴν τέχνην διοργανούμενος, παραδείγματι πανταχοῦ τοῦ πῶς δεῖ ταῖς τέχναις
ἢ τῖς οἰκονομίαις κεχρῆσθαι, τῇ ∆ημοσθένει ἐχρήσατο. ἐγὼ δέ, εἰ μὴ φορτικὸς ὑμῖν, ὦ νέοι, δόξαιμι τῷ τεχνικῷ ἀντεπιδεικνύμενος,
ῥητορικὴν μὲν ἑτέραν ἐκθήσομαι, παράθειγμα δὲ καινὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς τοῦ πῶς δεῖ γράφειν τὸν τούτου λόγον ἐκθήσομαι, ἵν' ἔκ τε τῆς
θέσεως τῶν ∆ημοσθενικῶν παραδειγμάτων, ἔκ τε τῆς ἀναιρέσεως τῶν τοῦ Ὀφρυδᾶ παραληρημάτων, ἄριστα ὑμῖν προΐῃ τὰ τῆς μαθήσεως.
Εἰ δέ τις οὕτως ἔχων φύσεώς τε ὁμοῦ καὶ μαθήσεως, συγγράμματά τινα κατὰ ∆ημοσθένους συντίθησι-δότε γάρ μοι πρὸς τὸν καιρόν
τι φθέγξασθαι, ὅτε καὶ τὸν Αἰσχίνην ἐρευνήσαντες οὐχ εὑρήσομεν-οὐ παράφορος ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ μαινόμενος; ἀλλ' εἰ μὲν τῶν ἄρτι
ἀκμαζόντων ὁ συγγραφεὺς ἦν, συγγώμην ἂν διὰ τὸν χρόνον δεδώκαμεν· ἐπεὶ δὲ τῶν καταλυσάντων ἐστί, τὸ φιλότιμον αὐτὸς καταλελυκώς,
οὐδὲ γὰρ προσεκτήσατο, οὐκ εἰς βάραθρον ὠθῆσαι χρεών; καὶ εἰ μὲν τοῖς πολιτικοῖς ἐξητάζετο πράγμασιν, εἶτα οἷα εἰκός, ζήλῳ
τοῦ ἀντιτέχνου διαφιλοτιμούμενος τοῖς τοιούτοις ἑκέχρητο λόγοις, οὐκ ἄν τις ἴσως κατέκρινεν ἢ οὐ πικρῶς ἐχαλέπηνεν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ
πόρρω καὶ νόμων καὶ δικαστηρίων, ὡς μέχρι τινὸς ἐδόκει, πεποίηκας ἑαυτὸν καὶ τοῖς καθ' ἡμᾶς Ναζιραίοις φέρων ἑαυτὸν συνηρίθμησας,
ἔπειτα ὥσπερ νὺξ ἀρξάμενος τῶν πολιτικῶν βασκαίνων ἑάλω, καὶ γραφὰς, ἐξενηνοχέναι ὕβρεων καὶ βασιλικοῖς ἀντιπίπτειν θεσπίσμασιν,
οὐκ ἄν τις εὖ φρονῶν καὶ ἐν εἰδώλῳ καὶ σκιᾷ τιμωρήσαιτο, ὕβρεσι πλύνων καὶ ἐπεγγελῶν καὶ εἰκότα ἀντισυγγράφων; εἰς ταῦτά σου
τὸν νοῦν οἱ περὶ Σισόην καὶ Ἀγάθωνα προετρέψαντο; ταῦτά σε οἱ ἐν τῇ σκήτει καὶ ἐν τῷ Σινᾷ ἐξεπαίδευσαν μοναχοί; ὧν σὺ τὴν
ἀναχώρησιν μιμησάμενος, τὸν βίον οὐ παρεζήλωσας, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἔπαιξας ἀκριβῶς, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀκριβῶς τοῦτον δὲ ἐμίσησας;
οὕτως ὁ τοῦ κυρίου παιδευόμενος; ὁπότερον βούλει, εἴτε τὸν τῆς σκιᾶς εἴτε τὸν τῆς ἀληθείας, προσθήσω δὲ καὶ τρίτον τουτονὶ
τὸν πολιτικόν· ὧν ὁ μὲν οὐχ ὑβρίζειν ὅλως ἐᾷ, ὁ δὲ καὶ πλέον προστίθησιν, ὥσπερ κἂν τοῖς ἄλλοις εἴωθεν, ὁ δὲ καὶ προστιμᾶται
τὸν ὑβριστὴν. σὺ δέ γε, ὦ λῷστε, καὶ τὴν μίαν σιαγόνα τυφθείς, ἀντιπαρέσχες καὶ τὴν ἑτέραν τῷ παίοντι ἢ παρεκάλεσας ὑβρισθεὶς
ἢ βλασφημηθεὶς ἀντευλόγησας; ὥστε καὶ ὕβρεως ἄρχῃ, καὶ οὐδὲ νεώτερος ὤν, ὅ φησιν ὁ ποιητὴς αἰνιττόμενος, ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ τὴν γηράσασαν
ἔλαφον, καὶ ταῦτα πρὸς οὐ διενεχθέντα σοι
