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 has made known by an agreement; to whom indeed you also entrusted everything under oath and, whatever they themselves should do, you have promised to us to approve and accept. These, then, are the terms of the agreement and of the exchange; and the dignities spoken of by name, my Majesty grants to your son and to the others, to whom you yourself may wish, according to what pleases you. But it does not count your greatest eminence among these, nor does it bind it by the terms of the agreement, but preserving it at its own height with the most extraordinary honor of the Nobilissimus, it also elevates the dignity to a lofty height, granting this outside of the agreements and raising it above the list of the other honors and <deeming it worthy> of the preeminent rank of the preeminent; and of what magnitude this is, both histories of old sing and the conduct of affairs in our time shows; for all other things are second to it, and this is surpassed by the imperial height only by the Caesar. And may you receive such an honor from our voice and choice, and no less also may you begin from great honors, by God's help embarking upon these things. Know this also, most noble and most brave one, that for many of the dignities in the agreement, both ceremonial silks have been specified in addition to the salary; my Majesty, however, does not limit the number of silks to the number of these, but, so that you may have something more even in this, all the silks in addition to those given with the dignities are summed up to the number of one hundred, so that they are many times more than these, apart from those specified for the dignities. Thus far are the matters of the imperial authority and of my unerring judgment and disposition. And as many things as God, being invoked in an oath, confirms, are these: may our Lord Jesus Christ, the creator of heaven and earth, be witness, and the all-pure Theotokos who bore him, may the angelic and divine powers be witnesses, the chief of the apostles, all our pious worship, that all things in our agreements given and promised by my Majesty in dignities, in salaries, in goodwill, in alliances, in friendships, in sincere and pure dispositions will be true and inviolable and unchangeable and nothing will remain unfulfilled of what our Majesty has promised you, but all things will be brought to completion, and especially whatever has been agreed upon concerning your little daughter. For she will be deemed worthy of imperial acclamation and will live inseparably with the emperor and my son and together with him, God willing, will shine in the palaces and will guide God's chosen people. You have, therefore, the confirmation both from my word and from my oath; and the word is not bare, but written, as you see; and not in letters only nor in imperial signatures, but also in a golden seal, sealing for us a truly golden kinship. But also the voice of the oath is fearful and terrible, calling God to witness and she who bore him without seed and the rest, so that nothing of what has been precisely bound may be dissolved by us.

Written in the month of August, the 12th indiction, in the year 6582. And since the disposition given in return by you towards both my Majesty and Romania ought not to be limited to your lifetime, but also, having passed to your heirs, to keep the same mind and to fulfill the same promises and undertakings, it is just that this also be added to your copy, which you are to make in accordance with my Majesty's letter and send to it, and to confirm by oath such an assurance concerning your heirs, that they too will preserve the same disposition towards my Majesty and Romania. Michael, in Christ the God faithful emperor autokrator of the Romans, the Doukas. Andronikos, in Christ the God faithful

συμφωνίᾳ ἐγνώρισεν· οἷς δὴ καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἐνόρκως ἐπίστευσας καί, ὅπερ ἂν αὐτοὶ πράξαιεν, πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐπηγγείλω καταδέξασθαι καὶ προσδέξασθαι. Τὰ μὲν οὖν τῆς συμφωνίας ταῦτα καὶ ἀντιδόσεως· καὶ τὰ κατ' ὄνομα ῥηθέντα ἀξιώματα τῷ τε ὑιῷ σου καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις, οἷς ἂν αὐτὸς βουληθείης, κατὰ τὸ ἀρέσκον σοι ἡ βασιλεία μου δίδωσι. τὴν δὲ σὴν μεγίστην ὑπεροχὴν οὐ συναριθμεῖ τούτοις οὐδὲ τοῖς συμφωνουμένοις καταδεσμεῖ, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τοῦ οἰκείου ὕψους τηροῦσα τῇ ὑπερφυεστάτῃ τιμᾷ τοῦ νωβελισσίμου τιμῇ καὶ εἰς μετέωρον ἀνάγει ὕψος τοῦ ἀξιώματος, ἔξωθεν τοῦτο τῶν συμφωνιῶν παρέχουσα καὶ τοῦ καταλόγου τῶν λοιπῶν τιμῶν ὑπεραίρουσα καὶ τὸν ἐξῃρημένον τοῦ ἐξῃρημένου βαθμοῦ <ἀξιοῦσα>· ὁποῖον δὲ τούτου τὸ μέγεθος, λόγοι τε ἄνωθεν ᾄδουσι καὶ ἡ καθ' ἡμᾶς τῶν πραγμάτων διαγωγὴ δείκνυσι· τἆλλα γὰρ αὐτῷ ξύμπαντα δεύτερα, τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ ὕψους μόνῳ τῷ καίσαρι διατέμνεται. καὶ δέχοιο τὴν τοιαύτην τιμὴν ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς ἡμετέρας φωνῆς τε καὶ προαιρέσεως, οὐδὲν δὲ ἔλαττον καὶ ἀπὸ μεγάλων ἄρχοιο τῶν τιμῶν σὺν θεῷ τούτοις ἐπιβαλλόμενος. ἴσθι μέντοι γε καὶ τοῦτο, εὐγενέστατε καὶ γενναιότατε, ὡς πολλοῖς τῶν ἐν τῇ συμφωνίᾳ ἀξιωμάτων καὶ τυπικὰ βλαττία πρὸς τῇ ῥόγᾳ ἀγωρισμένα εἰσίν· ἡ μέντοι γε βασιλεία μου οὐ μέχρι τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τούτων τὸν τῶν βλαττίων ἀριθμὸν ἀφορίζεται, ἀλλ', ἵν' ἔχοις τι κἀνταῦθα πλέον, σύμπαντα τὰ βλαττία πρὸς τοῖς διδομένοις μετὰ τῶν ἀξιωμάτων εἰς ἑκατοστὸν συγκεφαλαιοῦνται ἀριθμόν, ὧς εἶναι τὰ πολλαπλάσια τούτων ἐκτὸς τῶν ἀφωρισμένων τοῖς ἀξιώμασι. Μέχρι μὲν τούτου τὰ τῆς βασιλικῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ τῆς ἀψευδοῦς γνώμης καὶ διαθέσεως. ὁπόσα δὲ θεὸς εἰς ὅρκον καταγόμενος βεβαιοῖ, ταῦτα· ἴστω ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὁ ποιητὴς οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, καὶ ἡ τεκοῦσα τοῦτον ὑπεράχραντος θεοτόκος, ἴστωσαν αἱ ἀγγελικαὶ καὶ θεῖαι δυνάμεις, οἱ κορυφαῖοι τῶν ἀποστόλων, σύμπασα ἡ εὐσεβὴς ἡμῶν λατρεία, ὡς ἅπαντα τὰ ἐν ταῖς συμφωνίαις ἡμῶν παρὰ τῆς βασιλείας μου διδόμενά τε καὶ ἐπαγγελλόμενα ἐν ἀξιώμασιν, ἐν ῥόγαις, ἐν εὐνοίαις, ἐν συμμαχίαις, ἐν φίλος, ἐν εἰλικρινέσι καὶ καθαραῖς διαθέσεσιν ἀψευδῆ καὶ ἀπαράβατα καὶ ἀμετάθετα ἔσται καὶ οὐδὲν ἄπρακτον γενήσεται ὦν ἐπηγγείλατό σοι τὸ κράτος ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ πάντα τελειωθήσεται, καὶ μάλιστα ὅσα ἐπὶ τῷ θυγατρίῳ σου συμπεφώνηται. βασιλικῆς γὰρ εὐφημίας ἀξιωθήσεται καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ υἱῷ μου ἀδιασπάστως συμβιώσειε καὶ ὁμοῦ τούτῳ σὺν θεῷ φάναι ἐν τοῖς ἀνακτόροις διαπρέψειε καὶ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ κατευθυνεῖ λαὸν περιούσιον. ἔχεις οὖν καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὅρκου βεβαίωσιν· καὶ ὁ λόγος οὐ ψιλός, ἀλλ' ἀνάγραπτος, ὡς ὁρᾷς· καὶ οὐκ ἐν γράμμασι μόνον οὐδὲ ἐν βασιλείοις ὑπογραφαῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν σφραγῖδι χρυσῇ, τὴν χρυσῆν ὄντως ἡμῖν ἐπισφραγιζομένῃ συγγένειαν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ὅρκου φωνὴ φοβερὰ καὶ φρικώδης, τὸν θεὸν ἐπιμαρτυρουμένη καὶ τὴν τοῦτον ἀσπόρως τεκοῦσαν καὶ τἆλλα, ἵνα μηδὲν διαλυτὸν ἡμῖν τῶν ἀκριβῶς συνδεδεμένων γένοιτο.

Ἐγράφη μηνὶ αὐγούστῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιβʹ, ἔτους ϛφπβʹ. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡ ἀντιδιδομένη παρὰ σοῦ πρός τε τὴν βασιλείαν μου καὶ τὴν Ῥωμανίαν διάθεσις οὐκ ὀφείλει τῇ σῇ περιορισθῆναι ζωῇ, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τοὺς κληρονόμους σου διαβᾶσα τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην φυλάττειν καὶ τὰς αὐτὰς πληροῦν ἐπαγγελίας καὶ ὑποσχέσεις, δίκαιόν ἐστι καὶ τοῦτο προσκεῖσθαι τῷ σῷ ἀντιγράφῳ, ὅπερ μέλλεις κατ' ἰσότητα τοῦ τῆς βασιλείας μου γράμματος ποιῆσαι καὶ ἀποστεῖλαι πρὸς αὐτήν, ὅρκῳ τε τὴν τοιαύτην περὶ τῶν κληρονόμων σου πληροφορίαν βεβαιώσασθαι, ὅτι καὶ αὐτοὶ τὴν ὁμοίαν σώσουσι πρὸς τὴν βασιλείαν μου καὶ τὴν Ῥωμανίαν διάθεσιν. Μιχαὴλ ἐν Χριστῷ τῷ θεῷ πιστὸς βασιλεὺς αὐτοκράτωρ Ῥωμαίων ὁ ∆ούκας. Ἀνδρόνικος ἐν Χριστῷ τῷ θεῷ πιστὸς