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Isoc. Moderation with justice is to be preferred, rather than great wealth with injustice.

Demosth. He, having seen a certain unskilled demagogue shouting loudly, said, "But it is not the great that is good; but the good, that is great."

Of Epictetus. Of pleasant things, those that happen most rarely are most delightful. Alexandr. Alexander, having heard that Darius was leading thirty myriads into battle,

said: "One butcher is not afraid of many sheep." The same, when a scout told him that Darius's men were more numerous, said: "And the

sheep, being more numerous, are overcome by one or two wolves."

EXPOSITION OF THE CONFESSION OF THE LATINS, p. 1018

Written and sent by Gregory, Pope of Rome, to Germanus, the most holy patriarch of Constantinople.

The Father is full God in himself; the Son, full God, begotten from the Father;

the Holy Spirit, full God, proceeding from the Father and the Son. And the Spirit, indeed, proceeds from the Son immediately; but from the Father, through the mediation of the Son. And that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son, this the Son has from the Father. For this reason, whoever believes that the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son, is on the path of perdition. Whence Saint Athanasius, when he was in exile in the western parts, in the exposition of the faith which he clarified in Latin words, thus spoke: "The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made, nor created, [nor begotten] but proceeding." And the same Saint Athanasius, in the exposition of the faith, which he explained in Greek words, word for word thus spoke: "But the Holy Spirit, being the procession of the Father and of the Son who bears it, through whom he filled all things." Whence also the blessed Gregory, who is rightly called the Wonderworker, bishop of Neocaesarea, in the exposition of the faith, which he received through a revelation from the blessed John the evangelist, through the mediation of the God-bearer, most clearly thus proclaimed, saying: "One God, Father of the living Word, of subsistent Wisdom and Power and eternal Character; perfect begetter of the perfect; Father of the only-begotten Son. One Lord, alone from alone, God from God, character and image of the Godhead, active Word," and the rest. But he who speaks about the Son says, that He is alone from alone, therefore not the Holy Spirit from alone; therefore from the Father and another, since He is from someone. But when we say, from the Father and another, we do not say from another according to substance, but according to hypostasis.

And that the Holy Spirit is from the Son immediately, but from the Father through the mediation of the Son, the blessed Gregory of Nyssa testifies, saying thus: "Confessing the unchangeableness of the nature, we do not deny the difference according to cause and effect; by which alone we apprehend one to be distinguished from the other; believing one to be the cause, and the other, from the cause. And of that which is from the cause we again conceive another difference, that the one, is immediately from the first, or only to the Son, or only to the

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Ἰσοκράτ. Προαιρετέον μέτριον μετά δικαιοσύνης μᾶλλον, ἤ μέγαν πλοῦτον μετ᾿ ἀδικίας.

∆ημοσθ. Οὗτος θεασάμενός τινα δημαγωγόν ἀφυῆ μέγα βοῶντα, ἔφη, Ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τό μέγα, εὖ ἐστι· τό δέ εὖ, μέγα.

Ἐπικτήτου. Τῶν ἡδέων τά σπανιώτατα γινόμενα μάλιστα τέρπει. Ἀλέξανδρ. Ἀλέξανδρος ἀκούσας ὅτι ∆αρεῖος τριάκοντα μυριάδας εἰς παράταξιν

ἄγει, ἔφη· εἷς μάγειρος οὐ φοβεῖται πολλά πρόβατα. Ὁ αὐτός, κατασκόπου λέγοντος αὐτῷ, πλείους εἶναι τούς ∆αρεῖου, ἔφη· Καί τά

πρόβατα πλείονα ὄντα, ἑνός ἤ δευτέρου λύκου χειροῦνται.

ΕΚΘΕΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΛΑΤΙΝΩΝ, Σελ. 1018

Συγγραφεῖσα καί ἀποσταλεῖσα παρά Γρηγορίου ΠάπαῬώμης, πρός Γερμανόν τόν ἁγιώτατον πατριάρχην Κωνσταντινουπόλεως.

Πατήρ ἐστί πλήρης Θεός ἐν ἑαυτῷ· ὁ Υἱός, πλήρης Θεός, ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός γεννητός·

τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, πλήρης Θεός, ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐκπορευόμενον. Καί τό Πνεῦμα μέν, ἀπό τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐκπορεύεται ἀμέσως· ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός δέ, μεσιτεύοντος τοῦ Υἱοῦ. Τό δέ, ὅτι τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐκπορεύεται ἀπό τοῦ Υἱοῦ, τοῦτο ἔχει ὁ Υἱός ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός. ∆ιά τοῦτο, ὅστις πιστεύει ὅτι τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται ἀπό τοῦ Υἱοῦ, ἐν ὁδῷ ἀπωλείας ἐστίν. Ὅθεν ὁ ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος, ὅταν ἐν τοῖς μέρεσι δυτικοῖς ἐξόριστος ἦν, ἐν τῇ ἐκθέσει τῆς πίστεως, ἥν τοῖς Λατινικοῖς ῥήμασι διεσάφησεν, οὕτως ἔφη· Ὁ Πατήρ ἀπ᾿ οὐδενός ἐστι ποιητός, οὔτε κτιστός, οὔτε γεννητός. Ὁ Υἱός ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός μόνου ἐστίν, οὐ ποιητός, οὐδέ κτιστός, ἀλλά γεννητός. Τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ, οὐ ποιητόν, οὐδέ κτιστόν,[οὐδέ γεννητόν] ἀλλ᾿ ἐκπορευτόν. Καί ὁ αὐτός ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος, ἐν τῇ ἐκθέσει τῆς πίστεως, ἥν ῥήμασι Γραικοῖς ἐξηγήσατο, κατά ῥῆμα οὕτως ἔφη· Τό Πνεῦμα δέ τό ἅγιον ἐκπόρευμα ὅν τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ φέροντος Υἱοῦ, δι᾿ οὗ ἐπλήρωσε τά πάντα. Ὅθεν καί ὁ μακάριος Γρηγόριος, ὅστις δικαίως Θαυματουργός λέγεται, τῆς Νεοκαισαρείας ἐπίσκοπος, ἐν τῇ ἐκθέσει τῆς πίστεως, ἥν δι᾿ ἀποκαλύψεως παρά τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ, μεσιτευούσης τῆς θεογεννητρίας ἔσχεν, ἀριδήλως οὕτως κέκραγε, λέγων· Εἷς Θεός, Πατήρ τοῦ Λόγου τοῦ ζῶντος, Σοφίας ὑφεστώσης καί ∆υνάμεως καί Χαρακτῆρος αἰωνίου· τέλειος τελείου γεννήτωρ· Πατήρ Υἱοῦ μονογενοῦς. Εἷς Κύριος, μόνος ἐκ μόνου, Θεός ἐκ Θεοῦ, χαρακτήρ καί εἰκών τῆς θεότητος, Λόγος ἐνεργής, καί τά λοιπά. Ὁ δέ περί τοῦ Υἱοῦ λαλῶν λέγει, ὅτι μόνος ἐκ μόνου, οὐχί τοίνυν τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐκ μόνου· ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός οὐκοῦν καί ἄλλου, ἐπειδή ἐστιν ἀπό τινος. Ὅταν δέ λέγωμεν, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί ἄλλου, οὐ λέγομεν ἐξ ἄλλου κατά τήν οὐσίαν, ἀλλά κατά τήν ὑπόστασιν.

Ὅτι δέ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐστιν ἀμέσως, ἀπό δέ τοῦ Πατρός μεσιτεύοντος τοῦ Υἱοῦ, διαμαρτύρεται ὁ μακάριος Γρηγόριος ὁ Νυσσαέων, οὕτω λέγων· Τό ἀπαράλλακτον τῆς φύσεως ὁμολογοῦντες, τήν κατά τό αἴτιον καί αἰτιατόν διαφοράν οὐκ ἀρνούμεθα· ἐν ᾧ μόνῳ διακρίνεσθαι τό ἕτερον ἀπό τοῦ ἑτέρου καταλαμβάνομεν· τό μέν αἴτιον πιστεύειν εἶναι· τό δέ, ἐξ αἰτίου. Καί τοῦ ἐξ αἰτίας ὄντος πάλιν ἄλλην διαφοράν ἐννοοῦμεν, ὅτι τό μέν, προσεχῶς ἐκ τοῦ πρώτου, ἤ μόνον τῷ Υἱῷ, ἤ μόνον τῷ