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 the book of the epistle of Ignatius? For Dionysius flourished in the times of the apostles, but Ignatius competed in the contest of martyrdom under Tr

 to say, what kind succeeds from Aue to Auxumis. For it is in opposite condition concerning both summer and winter. For while the sun is passing throug

 he speaks nonsense, and that the stars are animate, and other things similar to these. His first book is a mythical account concerning the Father and

 When Anthimus of Trebizond succeeded to the throne of Constantinople, and some others, which are included in this. The Acts of the Sixth Synod were re

 the author, while still a boy, was taught grammar, studying with Ammonius and Helladius, the Alexandrian grammarians, who were Hellenists and, having

 being 728. The book has five volumes. This man also writes to Origen about the story of Susanna, that he had not read it in the Hebrew texts, and that

 In style, he is neither brilliant nor very clear, avoiding allegories as much as he could, and making his interpretation according to the historical s

 that had been assembled, I mean the robber one which this man deifies, and its leader Dioscorus and those with him. He also goes through the synod in

 to leave to others and was persuaded by none of those in authority, although they asked many times, to take money. He says that he both foresaw the pl

 a first offering. The 23rd, against those who say to believe simply what they say and not to comprehend what is fitting or unfitting. The 24th, agains

 exists in relation to the three things, through which the body is composed. Thus, then, having said these things unworthily of both the Jewish physiol

 being examined, and Sabas having slipped into the habit of the monks, whom from his action they called the castrated, and another Sabas, and Eustathiu

 we have seen malice feeding upon their souls. But Lampetius, with Hormisdas the bishop presiding as judge, and Gerontius the presbyter accusing, was c

 invites and repels. But the Nestorians, even concerning the very head of the body, Christ, have the same thought and audacity. For they say that since

 being proposed. He addresses these things to Sporacius, who had requested such a reading. And he comes down to Nestorius and his heresy, pouring out u

 ran up to Augustus. The history begins, then, from Aeneas, son of Anchises, son of Capys who flourished in the Trojan War, and after the capture of T

 established Pherecles, since he disgracefully attempted to violate one of the brothers, they, not bearing the outrage, both killed the perpetrator, an

 he overlooked in prison, and did not even deign to escort their bodies twentieth, that he insulted the most holy Acacius and did not give him a word

 ordinations fifteenth, that he received the Origenists but those in communion with the church who had come with letters of commendation and had been

 He was not convicted by Demosthenes, since Eubulus the demagogue, whom he had served, contended on his behalf against Demosthenes in arranging for the

 Maximinus having become master of those in Rome) he marched against him, exacting punishment for his lawlessness towards his subjects. And having conq

 a wind to the Persians wherefore also for the sake of setting boundaries 63.22a Perozes marched against the Ephthalites. But at first, having fallen

 are troubled by difficult country, who extend to the borders of Iberia, as was said. But going by certain other ways, with much toil and difficulty th

 was in command of this Roman army, having engaged the enemy, a few conquered many more from which, indeed, the Persians in this area also withdrew ho

 of the Cappadocians, of their cunning and greed and drunkenness and their other wickedness and how Antonina, the wife of Belisarius, by deceiving Joh

 and he still exacted money from the people of Constantina, and having come to Daras, he besieged the city, while Martinus the general fought from with

 The emperor Justin was later amazed when the Turks were shown to him. For at that time the Turks held both the trading centers of the Seres and their

 of the unholy tyranny. And further how Maurice made a truce with the Avars, who a little while before had besieged Sirmium, having agreed to pay down

 Concerning Zabertas the Persian, and how the Romans refrained from the siege of Chlomaron further, concerning the sudden and irrational flight of Phi

 Romans, and the Romans are decisively victorious, with Heraclius distinguishing himself brilliantly with the spear for Phraates, the general of the P

 And an embassy of Chosroes, on the condition that Comentiolus be removed from command, and the appointment of Narses in place of Comentiolus, and an a

 of the ambassador sent to the Khagan by Priscus, and of his education and skill. In which is also the sixth book. The seventh book treats of the disor

 through Armaton, and with splendid gifts and additions of twenty thousand gold pieces, he barely persuades him to accept the peace, saying: May God ju

 on account of the father's denunciation against his father-in-law. And the transfer of Germanus from the church of the Theotokos to the Hagia Sophia,

 using a style neither loose nor again artificially compressed, but such as a truly rhetorical and perfect man would use for he avoids neologism, and

 when they overthrew the kings in the sixty-eighth Olympiad, and the fourth, from when the consuls led the Romans, that is from the sixty-eighth Olympi

 a fitting expense to be spent out of a sense of honor towards his fellow consul, the emperor himself. This writer presided over Pergamum and Smyrna (t

 of a demonic phantom deceiving Croesus. And how, while Croesus was plotting, the boy is killed before his eyes and how the mother, seeing the calamit

 and the other affairs of the Egyptians, on the condition that he become satrap of Egypt. And it happened for Cambyses arranged these things with him

 having smashed a golden [statue] and taken its foot, he fought and finally, having been stabbed to death by the seven, he died, having reigned for se

 Artapanus having ten thousand and the Persian multitude was cut down, with two or three of the Lacedaemonians being killed. Then he orders an attack

 Megabyzus severely, and Artaxerxes and Amytis and Rhodogoune and their mother, Amestris, mourn, and he is saved with difficulty through the great care

 was of Babylon, and brother of Artaxerxes. And they join battle with one another and the Persian army flees and Menostates is struck in the shoulder

 While still living, his father made Ochus satrap of the Hyrcanians, giving him also a wife, Parysatis by name, who was the daughter of Xerxes, and his

 cities and countries for the betrayal. Artoxares the eunuch, who had great influence with the king, plots against the king, wanting to be king himself

 Of the Lacedaemonian along with the 72.44a Greeks with him by night, and the capture of one of Parysatis's cities. Then the truces of the king with th

 arrival. And a letter from Conon to the king and Ctesias. How the messengers sent from the Lacedaemonians to the king were kept under watch. A letter

 females. Now the male does not have an intestine and is very strong but the female does. And concerning the manticore, the beast that is among them,

 they use. And they use sesame oil. The lake also has fish. And they use nut oil but that from the lake is better. There is much silver there and silv

 amber. And the trees bear fruit in clusters, like a vine, but it has berries like Pontic nuts. In these mountains, they say, live men having the head

 goats and sheep. They drink the milk and nothing else. When a child is born to one of them, its rump is not pierced, nor does it defecate, but it has

 That cheese and wine, he says, are the sweetest of all things, as he himself, he says, learned by eating them through experience. That he says there i

 to some parts of Egypt, and Trachinus remembering the marriage of Charicleia, and Calasiris the supposed father promising, and deception, and a weddin

 and of Theagenes, because Theagenes does not consent to Arsace's love and Charicleia's condemnation to the fire, and the quenching of the fire by the

 during the reign of Justin. In phrasing he is like himself for he is clear and partakes of no tone or gravity. But in his arguments he is not only im

 in the twenty books, beginning from the creation of the world, up to the start of the final Jewish war against the Romans, at which time Agrippa, son

 he has used figurative language, which the law of history does not permit but for the most part, the emphasis and elegance of his diction removes wha

 Ardaburius, Patricius, Ermenrichus, and two females. The author, as has been said, makes the beginning of his history the beginning of the reign of Le

 to see his son Basiliscus Caesar, was later butchered, and the boy from being a Caesar was enrolled among the lectors in Blachernae. How before these

 for the most part was even more raised in power, and he successfully waged many wars on behalf of the Romans against many of the nations and that thr

 as from the emperor Honorius to the emperor, Jovianus, prefect and patrician, and Valens, general of both forces, and Potamius the quaestor, and Julia

 was styled of the Burgundians, was proclaimed tyrant. To whom Attalus advises Adaulphus to go and he arrives with his multitude. And Jovinus is annoy

 and by the counsel of Candidianus the marriage to Placidia is celebrated the month of January had come, in the city of Narbo, in the house of a certa

 he says that he was unfortunate. He says also that he went down to Athens, and that by his own zeal and care Leontius was raised to the sophist's chai

 signs of the interval in between. And there is another third small one, separated by a great distance from the two. And he says, as proof that it beca

 would remain, a sorcerer and faithless man. That Constantius was an Illyrian by birth, from the city of Panaïsus in Cadia, and having served in many c

 was shown to have. That many Roman houses received annual revenues from their own estates of 40 centenaria of gold each, apart from the grain and the

 to him and to the future son of Alexander to be born from Roxana (for she had been left pregnant) and to those around Perdiccas, who by the decision o

 hidden in a digression, it cures the consequence that tends toward greater harshness. A synopsis by the same author was read, of the 20 books of the h

 Concerning Leucippe and Clitophon, 8 books. It is dramatic, introducing some unseemly loves. And in diction and composition it seems to excel for it

 the death of Constantine, in which he also received the divine bath of remission, washing away the stains of life, which, being a man, he had likely c

 He defeated the Scythians in Asia in battle. And how the misfortune of Cleitus happened when Alexander was carried away by drink, and what grief he sh

 His death has been recorded in different ways by different people, and many disagreements have arisen concerning it. He lived for 32 years and eight m

 of the victory by which they conquered them, came about from which also everything, which Craterus and Antipater commanded them, was done without exc

 he brought Cleopatra to Sardis, and that it had been decided by Perdiccas to send Nicaea away, and to marry this one instead of her. When this was rep

 the army withdrew and the cavalry commanders, at Antipater's summons, came to him, and with the sedition having barely ceased, they chose Antipater t

 to be disturbed. And simply, if one were to compare his historical works, one would see many even of the ancients standing lower in his class. Also re

 and those on which Sinonís was riding, are captured, and an army surrounds the place in which Sinonís and Rhodanes were hidden, and the bronze shield

 is referred to Soraichus, who was the son of Soraichus the tax-collector, and his surname was Righteous. And he resolves to send her to King Garmus be

 Sorai­chos, and he is led before Garmon. The informer himself is also sent, carrying a letter from Damas to the priest of Aphrodite, with the purpose

 they met her angrily, and seizing Sinonis and binding her, they led her to Garmos to be punished as a murderer. And Sorachos was the messenger of bad

 ruling after his death, from whom he also was, and having taken her away, he marries her and Berenice celebrates the weddings of Mesopotamia, and war

 to present something clear. However, he is simple in his style and has descended into great vulgarity, not even being precise in that which is at hand

 Approaching him, he immediately received healing. And a certain Archelaus, prominent in rank and wealth, having leprosy on his face, when ordered to w

 with what was often set before him, but sought other things instead of them, and third, that often at his leisure he remained without food for days. A

 one hundred pounds but the worn-out little woman receives only 30 solidi. Therefore, she runs to the common harbor of the tempest-tossed, to the grea

 But the monks did not desist from their libels against Theophilus, and it was decreed by the emperor for Theophilus to come to the trial. And prevaili

 of holy Pentecost, and for five more days he was at leisure, doing absolutely nothing of an ecclesiastical nature. Then indeed he was completely cast

 Patron succeeded the Epicurean. And Virgil Maro the poet was born this year on the Ides of October. In the fourth year, Tigranes and Mithridates, havi

 was removed. And Severus, a man both shrewd and terrible at persevering in toils and otherwise profound in judgment, ascended to the imperial office,

 leaving aside, and simply among historians in 99.86a all the virtues pertaining to history he is second to not many. Was read various declamations of

 the precision of religion, detracting from the truth and considering some knowledge of the Son to be more profitable for the hearer than complete deaf

 He pretends to take up the struggle in place of Marinus, he takes up the accusations against John more bitterly, and his discourse is almost entirely

 A defense on behalf of Theophobius among the saints, in which he also attacks Severus, to whom he is attached (for such is falsehood and the lovers of

 according to the true philosophy of the gnostic commentaries of the Stromata 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. But the first up to the seventh have the same

 A book was read, the so-called circuits of the apostles, in which were contained the Acts of Peter, John, Andrew, Thomas, Paul. Leucius Charinus wrote

 it discusses, and concerning months and the new moon and the week and the days in it, what annual cycles are called and what are intercalary years, an

 were composed while he was living in prison with Eusebius present, but the sixth, since the martyr, having been led away from life by the sword, depar

 to have led the school of Alexandria. The book contained 12 treatises. In style he is clear and brilliant and as if flowing in his speech, showing no

 he says he composed the book. In his style he is clear and somewhat stately and unadorned, even if he does not adhere to the Attic style. And he says

 that some exist, and second, perhaps, that he used the example of the bird, the Phoenix, as if it were entirely true, and third, that in naming our Lo

 having an alliance but neither who was rebelling nor what the rebellion was, or what they did to calm the strife, he makes nothing at all clear. And

 an oration to the Roman emperor Marcus and he promises to speak worthily of the deeds of Alexander, but proceeding, he was shown to be ardent and bold

 the obscure and unclear is diffused throughout the whole work, so that it might seem to the many to escape their comprehension by the power of its cle

 The collection is so voluminous that the whole treatise is not even completed in five commensurate books but we encountered it in seven books. The bo

 and incorporating that of Pausanias, should produce one single work (an easy task for anyone who wished), this person would have contributed the fines

 and to encourage him also to collect these as much as possible in his writings. The eighth, however, he again dedicates to Julianus, and asks him, if

 is deliberative, urging the Athenians to virtue by praising their ancestors, but denouncing those still living. And the Plataicus is also deliberative

 as is fitting, he mixes into his own writings, sometimes also speaking of sacred things. And various and many of his writings are extant for it is po

 have come to be but also what and whence the contests were, in which each man displayed his skill. And about festivals, as many as were public for th

 and of Theseus and Lycurgus, and of Solon and Alexander son of Philip, and from the lives of Cimon and Lysander, and of Demosthenes and Pericles and P

 having refuted him as blasphemously holding, he urged Andrew to be corrected. But he, having accepted the exhortation for correction, inclined to the

 to dedicate these things. Upon these points, he shows him, from which things he spoke idly, opining that our Lord Jesus Christ, not having been change

 in the third section he introduces the so-called Methodic school as being in conflict with the two aforementioned ones, with each of the three putting

 Mysians and citizens of Leontos. Then to the companions from his homeland, and to Athenaeus the count, and to Privatus the Roman, who was educating th

 having arrived, then on account of the great cold having turned back to the Scythian ocean, and indeed having entered the eastern ocean and having bee

 concerning the sun itself and the moon and plants and islands, having become for her an excellent interpreter, he provided abundant material for story

 he reports seeing other similar things, and he tells marvelous tales of seeing men and certain other things, which no one claimed to have either seen

 but also for the stories about Sinon and Rhodane, and Leucippe and Clitophon, and Chariclea and Theagenes, and of the fictions concerning them and the

 and of perceptible things, and whether the senses are true and how many senses there are, and what is the substance and operation of each concerning

 of secrets, and 42nd concerning slander. The contents of the 4th book are these, first concerning the state, second concerning laws and customs, conce

 Of Pythagoras, Plutarch, Pampelus, Plato, Panaetius, Posidonius, Perictione, Porphyry, Parmenides, Polemon, Pytheas, Porus, Polybius, Plotinus, Protag

 Praysion, Simonides, Seriphius, Sotion, Sostratus, Speusippus. But the headings, under which John Stobaeus arranged the sayings of the ancients, and t

 sent by the synod of Alexandria to Nestorius, which demanded to anathematize him with the anathemas of the 12 chapters. And also others to Valerius th

 no gain whatsoever for piety, but would not unreasonably seem to furnish pretexts for accusation against it to the contentious, if indeed they will be

 have been deposited, and Stephen, the first of the martyrs, is also treasured in the eastern casket at whose feet in another casket is Nicodemus, bot

 which of them were composed while he was living in Antioch, which are also more precise, and which were made when he was high priest. But as for those

 treaties and in what manner they made the peace of Antalcidas and how Tiribazus made war, how he plotted against Euagoras, and how Euagoras, having

 he hints, not even they being so much inferior in respect to their speeches. But this is Theopompus. They say that both he and Ephorus became pupils o

 to have subsisted by nature as good before, to possess sin in nature and not in choice. Second, it follows for them to say that not even children, eve

 then from there what of those who ended their life, before Christ came? And if we are not baptized, are we and the infants still to commit sins there

 without adding anything, and many of the things which Dioscurides wrote, I do not know for what reason he passed over. But not even Oribasius, who see

 he preaches them consubstantial with God, the senseless one monstrously asserting that their light is not sensible but intelligible wherefore also, b

 at which time he also says he wrote the aforementioned treatises, and was deemed worthy of the king by a vote of the royal court. The time in which he

 appearing to obscure the clarity and all the other earnestness of the discourse. Wherefore the discourse, although it could otherwise be graceful, is

 he says that the Novatians scattered throughout Alexandria undertake to do this, whether only these have also contracted such a disease, or whether th

 practiced in the art, is asked to help the one who loves unhappily and to make the girl compliant to him and how Cyprian, having set in motion all th

 A certain Athanasius, a wretched priest of demons and formerly an associate of the divine Cyprian, then serving as an assessor to the magistrate, seiz

 on those who have a fever, 59th and that wine should be given to those with fever 60th that the bath should be applied to those with fever, 61st and

 a name but Caunus, wandering, arrives in Lycia, and to him Pronoe (she was a Naiad) rising from the river tells both the things that had happened wit

 and of Cleoboea in Thoricus of Attica, this Philammon became preternaturally beautiful. And one of the nymphs falls in love with the youth and becomes

 Scione and they settle it together. The 14th relates the story of Endymion, that he was the child of Aethnos, son of Zeus, and Protogeneia, daughter o

 having been born (the Bisaltae are a Thracian tribe, living opposite Pallene) this man, having secretly sent for the Chalcidians, betrays the Bisaltae

 the locals say the narcissus flower first grew from that land, into which the blood of Narcissus was poured. The 25th, how Minos son of Zeus and Europ

 they inhabited the river and Mount Pelion, and they campaigned with the Achaeans against Troy under the leadership of Prothous, and they were called M

 Apollo, having fallen in love, kissed him when he found him shepherding, where an altar of Apollo Philios is established and Branchos, having become

 At the same time they settle with the neighboring Cretans. The 37th, how the island of Thasos was named after Thasus, the brother of Cadmus for there

 But the Athenians later, having established a temple to Dionysus Melanthides according to an oracle, sacrifice every year, and they offer sacrifices t

 and the stag lay struck by javelins, but the horse perceived that he had been enslaved to the hunter This, he said, I myself also fear, O Himerans,

 bring shame, but her flourishing and at that time blooming with living blood after a long time. Taking her therefore, they bury her under a great mark

 she comes upon the children, and standing over them as they were whimpering and holding out their hands, she offered her teats and they were nourishe

 A little book by Apollodorus the grammarian was read to me its title is *Bibliotheca* it contained the most ancient things of the Greeks, both what

 and Morpho and tower of Zanos, and spermatic logos, and Apollo and prophet and logios. The cause of the names is, on the one hand, an unstable and sup

 of number, yoked to the monad as beginning and to the decad as end, and comprehensive of the phenomena in the nature of the cosmos for according to t

 Aion, Kratos, Pistis, Ananke, Atlas, Akamas the god, Phanes-Helios, Ourania, Mneme, Mnemosyne? And I think all the aforementioned names of the gods th

 Caesar called him Nicolaus, in honor of the one who received him. This man also left behind an Assyrian history in a voluminous book, as we have it fr

 ministers of the food of the gods, and what Alexander the king and Aristotle said on this, and concerning Homer and the doves. That Epicharmus the poe

 having taken Zeus from Cronus, he both nourished and instructed him in divine matters, but Zeus, he says, strikes his foster-father and teacher with a

 of Aphrodite, in whose honor the Lydians, placing all their wealth around her, hold a procession. And it was announced to his father while sacrificing

 Homer's Helen, who wrote the Trojan war, being the daughter of Musaeus the Athenian from whom Homer is said to have received the subject matter who

 he wore the hide, not of the Nemean lion, but of a certain Leontos, one of the Giants, slain by Heracles upon a challenge to single combat. That the d

 alpha and placed it first of the letters. That this mythographer, talking nonsense, says that Moses, the lawgiver of the Hebrews, was called alpha bec

 would appear. And the son of a certain Galatus was called Achilles, whom he says was born with grey hair from birth. And 14 other famous Achilleses ha

 Boulagoras the Phanagoritan, having fallen in love with Diodorus the flute-player, threw himself down and was killed, being already an old man. And Rh

 He sets forth a summary and brief account of a Christian, and again a character similar to those who are leaders of the word. Then he sets forth certa

 he would examine them more accurately and in a special treatise will set apart the work concerning them, he takes up in succession the questions and a

 Isaiah son of Amos and so forth. 50. What is 'and many brought gifts to the Lord and presents to Hezekiah the king of Judah.' 51. concerning that Heze

 introduces with itself the quantity of which it is, and the quantity in turn its own significant number, whether it is continuous or divided 8. That

 is a work of zeal and is addressed to Thalassius the presbyter and hegumen, it stirs up thoughts that what is related to these things is spurious, thr

 of these, the action and the work differed, and how it is possible to speak of or to conceive the one energy. But on these matters also is the work ad

 thought, and to whom else. The 36th is about meekness. The 37th is addressed to the insubordinate, whom it also restrains, lest they be driven headlon

 is addressed, but it bears the title Concerning the Eight Thoughts, to which it attaches gluttony, fornication, avarice, anger, sadness and acedia,

 the 7th, that 198.162a one must do nothing for show, and the 8th, that one must not judge anyone. And the 9th is about discernment. The 10th is about

 it has become an effort to report, the manner of such obscurity sometimes proceeds, since the knowledge from the works themselves does not at all cher

 adulterated by some interpolation, or otherwise carried away by some error. For I would pray that to be caught in an opinion is not proven true. John

 the 12 prophets, prepared with the same beauty of language and thought. Was read the exegetical scholia of Procopius the sophist on the Octateuch of t

 zeal to those who work into their speech elevation and pomposity, as in the *Borystheniticus*, using myths. He is, then, for the most part simple in h

 subjects to censure what is practiced among the Alexandrians according to the echo of a voice, advising those who use it to abstain, or rather rebukin

 the 38th oration, being, it shows Socrates as an admirer and student of Homer, and shows that the philosopher learned from there the proper use of exa

 for the ruled to do, or they even conspired for something worse. And concerning deliberation the ' and 70th discusses. And the 7th and 70th, inscribed

 a dose should be given to those with fever, and the contrary, that it is unhelpful. 30. That a bath is beneficial for those with fever, and that it is

 they define, but they say they dispute only about the apprehensive impression. Therefore those from Pyrrho, in defining nothing, remain completely bla

 he himself mentions at the end of the 5th book, in which he also says he has ceased writing for certain other reasons, and because the circumstances o

 to set forth the opinion of the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle. The argument of Hierocles, striving through his writing, constructs these things whi

 For since the pre-existence and transmigration of souls, which he himself puts forward as the support and foundation of providence and of free will an

 Easy, since those were also exposed for refutation, and put forth their own weakness. Four books were read which contained the medical treatise compos

 to be made. But such is also the second collection of medical practice and theory for Oribasius. And a third has been composed by him, as he himself s

 of ulcers in the joints, and of hemorrhages and nerve wounds, and concerning loosened joints, concerning both inflammation and rheumatic disposition,

 it differs in the person addressed, but in other respects it is most manifestly only a transcription of the treatise to Eunapius, so that I for one ev

 He describes purgative aloetics, and likewise salts, and the 5 hieras, and remedies for those who have taken a purgative and are not purged, and for t

 In the sixth book, he discusses all sorts of affections of the head and the brain, teaching both these and their therapies. He also discusses those bi

 concerning those suffering pain in the colon and concerning a flux of the belly, both the so-called coeliac disposition, and concerning wasting, and

 enumerating them and the causes for which they happen, and their treatments. This is also the 13th discourse. And in the 14th, it diligently discusses

 concluding a book of a medical treatise. 221.181a And as far as I know, the present work of the man is superior in every way to the synopses of Oribas

 humanity was brought down, so as to differ in nothing from the most voiceless and irrational of fish whom the net, clearly cast by the Word, brought

 he gave a refutation. For whenever it says that all things came to be through the Son, it would not mean that he assumed their nature may it not be

 saved humanity. And first he says that even if this had been accomplished, nothing would have prevented those who speak idly and dare all things, if i

 to give the only-begotten for our sake to death, but also this very thing, that the Son, being Lord of all, was pleased to take the form of a slave, b

 Michael dared not bring a blasphemous judgment against the devil, but we have received authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all th

 the earthly realm was to be adorned, just as the heavenly things by the heavenly powers, and for this reason man, a composite creature, came forth upo

 of the testimony you shall not go out for seven days. And the old did not prefigure only the number of days, but also the other sequence. For here als

 correctly, but somehow the nation of the Jews even before the legislation gave glory, but it did not even know the name of angels except for one or tw

 to one another and are referred to the same master and craftsman 222.189α and the investigation and solution concerning them are interconnected and in

 we prophesy but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. And his true disciple, the wise Dionysius, testifi

 “Holy” proclaims concerning God that He is beyond the boundary of any other nature for “holy” here does not mean to be clean from some defilement pas

 the melody was composed from the Cherubic hymnology and the 41st psalm of the sacred psalmists for in the psalm is sung the mighty, the living God,

 is also shown by enigmas. A second one after this towards the gospel, in which the Son and the Spirit are more clearly revealed and a third, finally,

 am I of God? How would it not have seemed a myth, if a voice from heaven was said to call to the one who was incarnate: This is my beloved Father, in

 the face of the Father to be concealed by wise methods. For the Spirit of God, being called both right hand and wisdom and power, knows how to escape

 the difference of hypostases, so also in the last times, when the Jewish belief had been strengthened by law and time into one person and had removed

 we receive of the body. But since he who is called both father and son according to the human race appears and is known by the fellowship of marriage,

 it provides, to those who have elevated their mind, the splendor 222.197α of the spirit flashing forth from within, while guiding the duller ones by t

 The perfect things reveal progress. Furthermore, not to cast holy things rashly and unphilosophically to the dogs, that is, to those who are opposed a

 and this involves sweat, and so the enjoyment of the reward for the contestants becomes completely certain. But this too is a providence of ineffable

 for, he says, going forth and not returning and, his spirit will go forth, and that a wind passed through him and he will not exist), since, therefore

 is disposed according to them. And he says that the elder son represents the angelic powers (for they hold the seniority over our race in time and man

 manifestly destroying them Thus as through fire, that is, not being freed from the punishment through fire. Similar, then, is that which was said con

 he called her who surpassed all in all virtues. It was necessary for the one without a father to name a father and brothers on earth he did not choos

 by the law a chorus of righteous men and prophets. But again the same one, both a herald and an ardent lover of love For those who love God, he says,

 of each person to himself, and through this to the giver of this and the provider of our unconflicted salvation, which also guards our hearts and surp

 I wish, this I do. Therefore it is reasonable, he says, that when we sin more than the demons, we obtain pardon, but they do not. Furthermore, he says

 it might recall again that which has flowed of its own accord toward the worse just as, on the other hand, for those who have willingly and autonomou

 of more grievous sins, but when committed by men, since indeed they can be remedied by repentance, is much more grievous and detestable. Second, how f

 of demons, since he speaks the truth, is not to be rejected but he who boasts like the Pharisee and brags that he is not like the publican is condemn

 innermost parts, and for them greed became a falling away from the moderation in which they existed. But it is also a mark of medical wisdom to apply

 He makes things not previously existing, then governs and administers them, but He does not administer and govern things that are not, before they com

 countless other swarms of absurdities follow. But if God provides just as He created out of goodness, the concept of fate, that is, of genesis, is sup

 of a star, but it is benefited in the greatest ways when one of the beneficent ones comes to it, with farming, buildings, fertility, how are there pla

 he puts forward a refutation of the heaven's not being a sphere, 223.212α which would be common objections also against those who posit it is a hemisp

 not at all harmed by changes (for neither have the tides of the sea ceased, nor the unquenchable springs of fire, nor the differences of animals in ea

 If, then, these things too are from genesis, let them say so, that they may owe more laughter but if they silently avoid the shame, how can they say

 more grievous, nativity forces parents to have hatred for their offspring instead of affection, and makes children hostile to their parents, and broth

 adapts its own color to that one. And the seleucis bird is so destructive to locusts, that even as many as are caught by its shadow are destroyed. Aga

 becomes lord of flying things while walking on the earth, and hunts things swimming in the deep, and simply is more powerful than all things by reason

 while its stellar arrangement has the same course, plants when pruned grow their branches again, and grass when mown springs up the same or even more,

 a measure, such as the fate of the Persians and Iberians, or of the Laz and the Romans, or of the others. How then is this nation governed like that b

 from fate, whence 223.219a come evils? To whom he answers that if you wish to learn whence come the evils we inflict on one another, seeing the perpet

 the power of God will be able to He does not make a murderer and punish him, nor does He forbid stumbling and compel disobedience and punish the one

 he will no longer say to put forward the testimony of the scriptures in the same way. From there, moving on to the 49th chapter, he very rightly extol

 Having gone through the 50th chapter, he moves on to the 51st, in which he refutes the heretics from Bardaisan, who pretend to accept the prophets, an

 4 to 10. The treatise sets forth as its purpose to record whatever happened concerning Heraclea Pontica, recounting those who were tyrants in it and t

 when the flesh was opened up, there flowed out a heavy and unbearable stench, so that neither the servants nor the physicians could endure the foul an

 the hopes of the exiles were extinguished, but for Dionysius, affairs on all sides changed for the more prosperous. The greatest turn towards his pros

 was ruling) even if she had induced him to leave Amastris on account of her relationship with Arsinoe, yet carrying in himself the embers of his forme

 having appointed Phocritus. But Zipoites, the governor of the Bithynians, being hostile to the Heracleots, formerly on account of Lysimachus, and then

 He marries Arsinoe, his sister, as this was the custom for the Egyptians, and he kills the children born to her by Lysimachus after which he also ban

 friends to his friends and enemies to those who were not his friends, and to be an ally to the Byzantines, if ever it should be necessary, and to the

 he writes down the children from his second wife, and appoints as guardians Ptolemy and Antigonus and the people of the Byzantines and indeed of the H

 they should need anything from them, they would lack for nothing. And later they also sent an embassy to Cornelius Scipio, the one who acquired Libya

 A war arose with the king of Pontus, taking as a pretext the seizure of Cappadocia for Mithridates, having seized his nephew Arathes by deceit and tr

 country, to meet Sulla. And he, taking with him Lucius Hortensius who was leading over six thousand men from Italy, encamped opposite him at a conside

 return to Rome, and that the Romans should bear no grudge against the cities for having defected to Mithridates, even if this did not happen according

 both the royal and the Roman forces having joined battle with one another (Cotta was general of the one, and Mithridates of the other) the Bastarnae r

 rather than 224.234a desiring the company of a man, she spent her life in mountains and hunts. Dionysus fell in love with her, but though in love he d

 reversals occurred, but for the most part the Roman cause nevertheless prospered. The king, for his part, was discouraged. Therefore, having gathered

 having taken this from the Heracleotes, he renamed it after himself). From there he went down to the Pontic sea, and having passed along the coast, he

 (for they seemed to excel the others in both experience and courage) were broken by those from Heraclea, and immediately 3 of the Rhodians and 5 of th

 they became implacable towards their own countrymen, and would have been cut to pieces by one another, had not Triarius, perceiving their impulse, app

 Having seen Cleochares and completely despairing, putting much wealth on their ships and permitting the soldiers to plunder the city, (and this was do

 and the great wealth about him stirred up envy. Therefore he also brought much of the spoils into the Roman treasury, to ward off the envy for his wea

 to the Tome of Leo, the sainted Archbishop of Rome, and a refutation of Timothy and Severus who spoke against the Tome. For the heresy boasts that eac

 What seems to be spoken obscurely in certain places of the divinely inspired scripture is clarified by what is confessed in other places. And that one

 nature was united to the passible nature, so that this which is suitable for our healing might exist, being one and the same mediator of God and men,

 These things are falsely attacked and bring shame upon their attackers things which so bind the union together, that one wonders how from these thing

 not only of those before the council in Ephesus but also of those after it, who did not use such a phrase, but through other words dogmatized the same

 receives its constitution. For when the dogmas of the church are orthodox and are proclaimed by other voices, some words, even if they become unreason

 of goodness, the consubstantial Trinity, to offer up the doxology. For which reason they do not even tolerate the addition of 'Who was crucified for u

 he suffered from the followers of Severus, this very thing having been said by Cyril not once or twice but five times, I mean, that of each of the tw

 impossible. But neither is it possible for one substance to come together with another substance into an identity of substance, insofar as they are of

 And the treatise contains some other useful arguments against the heresy of confusion. After this, a letter was inscribed in the book to Megas, the bi

 These are words maliciously interpreted for the holy Cyril wished to set forth through these words the difference of soul and body, from which the on

 in them both is and is known, Cyril cries out again: For just as, he says, he is perfect in divinity, so also in humanity. And again: We do not mainta

 the holy Cyril has used. And in the discourse which is entitled On the Interpretation of the Faith, the same confessor speaks thus: But those who sa

 our Jesus Christ to be composed of two substances, just as also when in two natures, in two substances. And the son of thunder also teaches this in sa

 writing, and in the interpretation of the scapegoat. For each of these, and countless others, proclaim that with the flesh he both ascended and remain

 is brought forth from three 229.254a generations, from those before the law, Enoch being taken, from those after the law, Elijah, and from those after

 each one rather. And in the third discourse, writing to Domnus and John, the ascetics inhabiting Second Cilicia, he says these things on behalf of the

 and the nature, entering to the disciples while the doors were shut Handle me, he says, and see that a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as yo

 If some of the party of Severus should say that if there are two natures in Christ, there will also be two persons and hypostases (for a nature is not

 of the union in Christ of the body to the divinity, and Athanasius of Alexandria, from the letter to Maximus the philosopher and from other various di

 the thing will be for the Word of God allowed the human to proceed through the customs of its own nature. And in the discourse against Nestorius: Ob

 but he insanely held another doctrine concerning the last times. And Julius, of blessed memory, also proceeded with the same understanding for he too

 dyadic, not from conviction nor willingly nor according to a confession of faith, but as in opposition to falsely-named knowledge and by economy and f

 the victorious Cyril brought forth against Nestorius, from which his trustworthiness and wonderfulness is demonstrated. And the holy Cyril himself say

 he says in the book: For what will you do, when the one simple in nature comes to us as twofold? And countless other things. But how did the holy syno

 the royal coin, the double character in unity, 229.263α has offered himself on behalf of all as from all, a ransom for our life. And in the discourse

 he proclaimed the same words, which Leo among the saints followed. Again the heresy slanders the holy Leo because, it says, he spoke of “the lowliness

 by reason of the assumption. And Gregory of Nyssa in his works against Eunomius says these things: What is the effulgence of glory? What is that which

 they wished. But let us leave aside the irrational. And since those to whom he wrote brought forward a certain usage of Julius of Rome in defense of t

 knowing to confess clearly in two natures, indivisible and unconfused, in perfect divinity and perfect humanity, the expression neither showing a conf

 to receive, as the head of the whole body, and this: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? making our things his own through ineffable love for ma

 especially when fighting against Apollinarius or Manes or Eutyches, would be brought forth imperfectly, and would be rather assisting their way of thi

 We know that theological men treat the evangelical and apostolic sayings concerning the Lord, some as common, as of one person, but others as divided,

 signifying a difference of the flesh and of God the Word, but he no longer confesses the union with us. For we, having united them, confess one Christ

 a sophist corrupts the expression, nonetheless the two natures are declared, because the same Ambrose, as has been said, having spoken of what is in e

 Cyril, having laid down and established as a foundation in the souls of all this very thing, to glorify one nature of the Word, and this one incarnate

 Manichaeus, writing to Scythianus, and finding fault with those who speak of two natures, says the following: The Son of the eternal light manifested

 man wherefore also properly and truly the all-holy Virgin is proclaimed Theotokos. So that the paradigm of man was maliciously used in vain by the fo

 Nature is a teacher, and the tradition of the church is seen always cherishing this. For which reason also in Alexandria, before the ecumenical counci

 if you should force him to say these things, it is because in the case of the ineffable union in Christ, these things are properly said of those thing

 and in the letter to Suchensus, he says that to say two natures undivided after the union, without adding the hypostatic union, conflicts with those w

 would justly be refuted. After going through these things and things similar to these, the author, and having laid down an exhortation encouraging tow

 established above in its super-essential and proper solitude, theologized as a unity and a monad, known as Son in Father and Father in Son, Holy Spiri

 the great teacher of the phrase, not willing to understand that that wise man, giving neither a definition nor a description of hypostasis, took up th

 it is very difficult to answer, because the sin and failure concerning these things is not very culpable, but if it is about the simple and blessed na

 the same author does in his second letter to Succensus. For in it, explaining what the one nature of the Word incarnate signifies to him, and having

 The Lord will pass over to smite the Egyptians, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on both the doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the doo

 he does not dogmatize this everywhere for he is wavering in faith and multifaceted for in some of his own discourses he also confesses that things t

 has come forth, just as also concerning the difference of the natures which came together in Christ. For to some it occurred to imagine that the diffe

 to understand it as spoken by way of reference, just as the saying, You knew my foolishness, and, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Some,

 of the hypothesis and of the recital and of the third volume that has come into our hands. In this book the author, hastening to demonstrate the resur

 he makes precise, and shows no ordinary learning of the sacred dogmas. In this letter you will find Magnus also being anathematized with Apollinarius,

 of a certain Tritheite, whose surname was Gobaros. The book seemed the product of long labors, but the profit it brought was not equal to the great ef

 it is, nor the thousand-year luxury, nor marriage. That after the resurrection the sojourn of the just will be in paradise, and that not in paradise b

 therefore the two chapters, just as those mentioned a little before, received their citations unilaterally and not from each of the opposites. That th

 and attributes impossible things to the creator. He adduced a citation for this opinion from the martyr Justin but for him a battle was engaged again

 It sets forth eighteen specific chapters, for instance, what opinions Severus held concerning the holy mystagogues of the church, and how he was dispo

 of the recompense for the lives men have lived. Such, then, is the promise of the title, but the discourse strives to present Gregory of Nyssa among t

 of myriad treatises, preserving what is correct and unadulterated. And having contended well in these matters, and as no one else could better, he con

 to the third heaven to those who know how to listen to subtle arguments For saying, I know such a one caught up to the third heaven, and, I know such

 he killed, by the saying: In whatever day you eat of it, you shall surely die, having made him liable to condemnation. Therefore: The law is holy, and

 to be tested as was necessary), let us not yield, O soul, let us not yield to the evil one, but: Taking up the whole armor of God that defends us, let

 Immediately, of course, explaining from what sort of death he longed to be delivered and who his deliverer was: But thanks be to God through Jesus Chr

 must be taken figuratively, and not this tent. For if you think he means the body is the earthly house that is being dissolved, tell me what the tent

 of the man of dust, which we have worn, is the saying: “You are earth, and to earth you shall return,” but the image of the man of heaven is the resur

 (for he himself also confesses that the soul is of like form to the body) to be forbidden as more inglorious, but to rise without foot and without han

 being unyoked from the body is given to the soul, which is impossible of all things because the form of the flesh perishes beforehand in the alteratio

 of torment, send Lazarus to report to them the things here), and through these seeking the tongue and the finger and the bosom of Abraham and the reca

 and to the other unbelievers these things were compared by the disciples of Christ and were preached, and it changed them from impiety to faith in Chr

 for I am compelled to say this), he himself in himself will be incomplete and in need of those things on account of which he is almighty and creator.

 being without order and unmoved, he began to move and order it. Therefore the same world always was and will be perpetually for the artisan must be c

 being borne along disorderly, He did not leave it to be borne along this way forever, but began to create, and wished to separate the most beautiful t

 does. But I say to this that not even in man does it arise from some underlying art. For it is not possible for art to give its own substance for it

 these, or the qualities. {-} But do you not say that God has made some change in the qualities? {-} This I say. {-} For the better? {-} So it seems to

 one must come to an examination of evils, and of necessity investigate the things that exist among men. Are the evils among men species of evil, or pa

 one, therefore he says that these things must be understood not only according to the letter, but also spiritually, in reference to Christ and to the

 the ruling faculty is disturbed, being muddied by the passions a second, when at length having advanced to a perfect man, the mind begins to acquire

 was self-ruling and a queen, and that of those after these they were beginnings and first, those royal souls before the flood that had become pleasing

 blessed, whom the Word Himself, having brought her up into the heavens, placed at the right hand of the Father, adorned in clothing of gold, which is

 awaits resurrection, setting each one's own body as a tent, and the seven days as a type of the seven ages, and the other things analogously. That he

 they did not want stripes to rule over them, until God, having pity on man for a fourth time, sent chastity to reign, which Scripture accordingly call

 to raise it double the former. For the one built by the captives fell short of the Solomonic one in certain measures of height. Herod’s temple had a l

 having reigned as king and high priest for 3 years and months, and having been brilliant and magnanimous in his rule. But to Hyrcanus the high priesth

 of his uncle, so that he would not take up the priesthood again (for it is forbidden for Jews to serve as priests if they are maimed in any part of th

 to be eager to accomplish for himself. But he went up with her, and Agrippa followed and found them just as they were landing. And having accused Hero

 the high priesthood, he puts on both this and his mother's kingdom. In the third year of his reign, and in as many months, Pompey came and took the ci

 is verified. And the epic cycle, completed by various poets, is brought to a close, up to the landing of Odysseus in Ithaca, in which he is killed by

 that Dionysus was reared at Nysa in a two-doored cave, or because he was found when the stitches of Zeus were undone, or because he seems to have been

 has. The threnody differs from the funeral song, in that the funeral song is spoken at the time of the funeral, while the body is still laid out but

 with wine and honey and cheese and barley-groats. And supplicatory poems were written for those asking that something might come from a god. And pragm

 is the absence of light. And common usage also calls the unlit air darkness, either the nocturnal state of the air or that which happens in some other

 Four wrynecks hang from the roof, to guarantee for him inevitability and that he not be raised above men. The magi themselves say that these are fitte

 the banks, and a certain perfume is emitted by the trees, which the Indians make into a wedding ointment. And this river alone nurtures the fish calle

 they say they engage in the hunting of dragons for indeed the whole land of India is girdled by dragons of immense length, and the marshes are full o

 eyes with countless flashings. The light in it is a spirit of ineffable power for however many stones you wish, having scattered them both far and wi

 the hunting of the oyster, having prepared himself in other respects just like those who cut sponges, but he also has an iron mold and an alabaster bo

 but it would be admired more for its fruit for it teems with emerald stone. And they say a golden girdle of Teucer, son of 241.329α Telamon, is shown

 where, upon his arrival, he says Apollonius encountered uncoined gold and linen and ivory and roots and myrrh and spices, and that all these things la

 to Timasion and to another named Neilus to keep to the third cataract, concerning which they have come to report the following. That peaks of about ei

 to her who was aroused For I have not yet, he said, been silent. And there was a famine, and vetches were for sale, and the necessities for food sust

 He says that griffins are like lions in size and strength, but because of the advantage of their wings they attack those very creatures, and are super

 He yielded the rule at first to apple-fed women. For the gold was counterfeit and black, coming from tears. He preened himself. And he went through th

 Everyone Apollonius for his bearing was regarded, and the astonishment at his appearance seemed divine. Concerning the haircut: “I was unaware, O kin

 For the great Isidore was so well endowed by nature and by a fortune that revealed itself in dreams, that it often occurs to me to marvel, as I experi

 one might, I think, name it the life under Cronus or the golden race or the race near-sown of the gods, such things as poets, sitting on the tripod of

 put forward, Isidore made little account of this either. But when he tasted of Plato's thoughts, he no longer deigned to look about afar, as Pindar sa

 and good in appearance, being then at the most prudent age, both easy to converse with and pleasant, capable and helpful to those who encountered him.

 But he was unable to write meters or speeches, although he was very fond of it. That when a battle had occurred before the city of Rome between the Ro

 to have recorded among them one-footed men, and monstrous dragons, seven-headed in size, and some other things having much that is paradoxical. That S

 From Aedesia, older than the sons of the philosophers, a child is born, and Aedesia played with her son, who was seven months from his birth, as was n

 Gizeric, king of the Carthaginians, having heard that the Romans had killed Marcellinus, their ally against him, by treachery and contrary to their oa

 they tell the myth that Horus came to be, and before Horus, the Sun. And since his finger had grown together with his lips, it required an incision, a

 but according to the Pythagorean law he did not endure to eat mallow. Asclepiodotus was not perfect in genius, as it seemed to most people, but was ve

 boundaries, no less than the proverbial ones of the Mysians and Phrygians. But nevertheless Patricius dared, against the law of philosophy, having rus

 being deemed worthy alone to be called the favorite of Proclus, on whom indeed he also placed the greatest hopes. And so there was no one boastful tow

 A company of men assembled for an assault. And he ordered the attendants to now take up the scrapers. And he cast the philosophers into prison again,

 of a certain giant, whose name was Ascus, whom Zeus subdued here. But others give other reasons for the name. The author set out from this city. How t

 And I reported these things to Isidore, who always extended a wise and divinely inspired hearing to the sacred myths. Thinking he would be in danger f

 kind, such as the poets sitting on the tripod of the Muse dignify in the form of myth. And by spiritedness, a constitution roused for wars and battles

 when the time of the wedding arrived. But also having put on the philosopher's cloak, as a philosopher, the bride. Of the religion concerned with divi

 242.352α having fallen from a horse and badly injured his leg, ended his life. Then Severianus, he says, our fellow citizen in our times, along with m

 being zealous for the common benefit of his hearers, but sometimes relaxing his seriousness with playfulness, and cleverly mocking those who were erri

 compelled him to take up what made no difference to him? For when both the law and the opportune moment of affairs command the same things, I obey bot

 we gave to the fire of the Medes. He who did not make a truce with Philip, not even after Chaeronea, which was full of evil fortune. It was once our a

 let us examine the defense. {-} Are you then demanding punishment for a doctrine? {-} No, but for impiety for it is permitted to hold doctrines, but

 There is not one life of man in judgment and in nature, but the aims of those who live are divided, and to each a suitable end is allotted. A wise man

 a misfortune to lack the means for the same things in which they were unfortunate. Has someone been wronged with regard to a child? Has not a wife als

 to utter a sound. For if one of the gods, as we often hear many such things from the poets, had let him go for a moment, just long enough to be presen

 to make an arrangement also of the painting, and to paint nothing before the exposition, not speaking, not delivering a public speech, not being crown

 of the city, nor do you hide the rushing sound from the mainland, nor do you confine the mainland for soldiers, nor do you compel the elements to be t

 not for one moment nor time, nor only for the very outbreak of the war, but for the entire life of the city. For if he razed Plataea alone, he also ma

 we will draw up our battle lines worthy of the trophies that have been erected, waging wars against our own countrymen under Xerxes as general. On acc

 having received authority from him, to use against him the authority of speaking. For the lawgiver, by consoling the fear of death with the honor of a

 bodies, but the fellow-soldiers the gods their souls, and earth and sea their glory. But when Xerxes was enraged against the city, nothing at all was

 to address him as a free man. I entrust freedom to the child even before puberty. He is mine, he is an Athenian, of a city that honors its common old

 You are acting like youths. O unfortunate tongue, O once an instrument of the Muses, but now of an unmusical demon. O you who shone swifter than the m

 they desired the fellowship of all. It is said that once Olympias, blessed in the birth of Alexander, while celebrating the mysteries of the Cabeiri i

 Zeus begat, and all other things were arranged as they are now, but Eros had not yet taken up residence in the souls of men, but this god, still havin

 To Corinth the prooemium.}1 Those of old who toiled at the lyre, if ever they hastened to another land, did not make their departure silent, but with

 The fleet to Athens, which so inflamed you with longing as to carry its love even upon your very tongue. Why do you hesitate at the departure of the c

 the sun, for Egypt and for the Ionian sea, being separated toward the other 243.371a continents and ending, but a coast stretching along extends it fr

 greater in Psyttalia, great around Salamis for there he drowned all of Asia in battle. {1From a send-off speech.}1 And perhaps you do this well for

 thyrsi. But they at once saw the god and were captured, and casting aside their weapons, those who had just been fighting Dionysus formed a chorus. An

 had been put forward, but she shook the branch, and he echoed to the wave. And a vote resolves the contest, and Athena takes the prize of victory. And

 Privatus the Roman the prooemium.}1 The desire, then, for the fire at Eleusis brought Anacharsis the Scythian also to the mysteries. {1From when he r

 of good things and a metropolis. He himself plants his own soul in this plant, watering it with Attic streams. But beautiful things are always rare, a

 because each one so exults in these things as if they were for him alone [as] for all. What shall I do? What shall I advise? Shall I send a prefect to

 around her lower abdomen. But when the place swelled more, and then great fevers also occurred, the physicians supposed that an ulceration had occurre

 when a condition arose around the pubic area and terrible pains ensued, a multitude of doctors was assembled. And while none of the others promised to

 to show them to be completely estranged, sharing a table with no other nation nor showing any goodwill at all. They also reminded him of the hatred hi

 introduced a way of life hostile to foreigners. And having selected the most gracious of the men and those most capable of presiding over the whole na

 hopes, and hastening to end his life without disgrace, he removed himself from living in a peculiar and unusual manner. Having shut himself up in a ne

 descendants of one of those who had slain the Magus. And so they reckon their relationship from Cyrus. Cambyses, the father of Cyrus, had a legitimate

 such a grace. When his father met his fate, he succeeded to the kingdom, exhibiting a most noteworthy conduct of life in other respects and devoting h

 just in the distributions of the spoils, and he honored with gifts those who had acted bravely, according to their worth. But advancing, he showed him

 they would give him gifts, saying that when he became king, he should remember the favor. Nevertheless, the prodigy-mongering proceeded to a true outc

 he prevailed, having already more than ten thousand soldiers. In the meantime, a certain Cleon, a Cilician, began another revolt of slaves. And while

 having been utterly destroyed in the war against the Cimbri in Gaul, and there being a shortage for the dispatch of picked soldiers. But before the re

 serving in suspense for their freedom. But those in positions of authority ran together and were urging the general to desist from this attempt. And h

 having established them in divisions, he ordered them to go over the country and all to meet at one place and time. Therefore, having procured many ot

 working, and those they met, both slaves and free, so that no one might report their desperation, they murdered shamelessly. Wherefore all those in th

 night having come on, he was saved. The Romans won a brilliant victory, with those with Tryphon and he himself fleeing and with many being cut down d

 he has sinned against God, to be deprived of life for the Romans are very superstitious. Therefore Battaces, having received permission for the makin

 therefore and still but when Gaius Cosconius was sent as general to Iapygia, they were defeated many times. Then, having been diminished and few havi

 for in the wars died his own death but Marius, having fought nobly in the battle against Sulla, nevertheless 244.393α being defeated fled to Praenest

 came to the sea. From where Porcia, about to turn back again to Rome, tried to hide that she was deeply distressed, but a certain painting betrayed he

 as if, with two paths lying before him from the beginning, one towards the speaker's platform and the assembly, and the other straight to destruction,

 waiting for Philip but Alexander, blaming the sending away of the horse, asked from his father to take him, and having taken the horse that seemed to

 security. {1From Sertorius.}1 That while Sertorius (he says) was lingering around Iberia, some sailors met him who had sailed back from the Atlantic i

 But later Ptolemy Philopator also built a forty-banked ship, two hundred and eighty cubits in length, and a height to the top of the stern-post of for

 having been mentioned, so then the jesters, in praise, would call the persistent and enduring and industrious Marian mule. That after Marius conquered

 Having taken over the city from Cleomenes, and having treated the Lacedaemonians humanely, and not having insulted nor outraged the dignity of Sparta,

 for those flying, but it causes a slipping just as for those stepping into a void, unless, by Zeus, by some blow rather, as if pierced by an arrow, it

 more reasonable, or rather, for those who honor justice, more exact in the very principle of justice, and for those who are stronger in the use of for

 and preparation, judged not by the eloquence of words, but by the proof of deeds and by the call of the moment. For they did not turn the spectacle to

 having made their deprivation a starting point for the good things to come, and they saved those who possessed their own things with what they themsel

 pulling against. For when the Greeks were engaged in war and contention against her, that she in no way abandoned her foresight on behalf of the Greek

 of the Greeks being held]· but they so changed the state of affairs, as if all these things were happening for them and not against them, or as if the

 he has given, or they demanded back what was their own. Perhaps, then, I too may seem to some to be doing something strange, blaming those who compare

 Some bring charges, not for having sinned against the common nature of men, but for having followed the necessity of rule, and having been established

 I for my part would think it might thus become most clear by how many superior things our city has surpassed the others. For what suffices for Greece

 The common poet of the Hellenes, in the catalogue of ships and cities, said that the Athenians' general came to the highest point in marshalling horse

 to the courts, but all should know this well, that if these things are judged in this way, none of the defendants will be acquitted for all, of cours

 we shall dare, as if it were necessary to contradict Plato on as many points as he himself might wish to contradict himself. But it seems strange to m

 things which no physician knows he ought to name, let alone to heal, nor has seen [_i_n] human nature, at different times with different encouragement

 a poet was able to receive, having become one from a shepherd since men, surely excelling by nature and prevailing, discovered both the arts themselv

 Even if we were to grant that rhetoric is not an art, one might be able to speak on its behalf, having taken away many of the attacks against it, such

 All rulers, then, in every action are by nature superior to those under them but if someone with authority also bestows favor by persuading, not comp

 Laws were to be established so that all might have their due, but those superior in might were going to deliberate on this, how was there not then a n

 If Plato strongly affirms this, that rhetoric provides not much service [_nor is it worthy of serious consideration or mention], because to be wronged

 be wronged might have a defense, and might save both them and himself, and, by Zeus, if he were able by speech to prevent this very thing, someone who

 therefore the strongest of all, as among falsehoods [being almost], of those things which Plato 247.418a has said, [that I think we even encounter our

 [that their sins were nothing at all against Socrates, who did not himself deny that he conversed with the young men]. But if the people of Athens, in

 to suffer ill at the hands of the Athenians was some sign of not having presided well over the Athenians, nor did Aristides preside well for indeed h

 were brought up. And let our story have this end, I think, having received a conclusion that is not without honor. That [_these things_] are not other

 to be ours, you would not have so delighted me as by showing that you had anticipated it so much are you a friend to me and beyond friends. [__S_o_m_

 are we being meddlesome, because we brought these things into the open, and do not prostrate ourselves like those who carry a chest containing secret

 to the people, but in constraining everyone and holding everything under himself, he was more than a tyrant. From which, as it seems, it is possible t

 [one] should brilliantly prevail, all have already conceded. So indeed also when someone becomes preeminent in speaking, the majority must be content

 bodies, both the worst and the best, I hear are mixed from the same things and by participating in either more or less of these [_e_a_c_h_ _o_n_e_],

 years had passed, so that they might hear his voice so much did they long for him. But you rail at how they condemned him, but you do not consider ho

 he made saying: the pure demons are called subterranean, noble, averters of evil, guardians of mortal men. And calling them, except that they are not

 having exerted himself again, he was in the same circumstances thus easily he subdued her. But in the tenth year all the ends of the earth and all pe

 Enthymeme but in these things, what is inappropriate appearing beforehand also restrains the very creation of the argument. That man, the best in all

 but it was laid up to be nowhere of land nor of sea, why do we judge these Achaeans from the tower? A proverb: [just as Priam from the wall and Helen]

 they seem to me to have benefited, than if the land itself had produced everything a hundred times and even more]. For my part, then, I was ashamed to

 Did Themistocles and Pericles and Miltiades and Cimon not educate all the Athenians, nor did they make them all better one after another by tribe and

 mind, but was not of the present one and of the one who had commanded the most shameful things, how were they not much weaker than the tyrant? And whe

 not even all of these how so? But both Themistocles and Cimon were ostracized and this was not hatred [_nor alienation_] of the people towards them,

 if someone, defending your arguments, were to turn them back twofold against you and against Socrates, saying that even if these things happened to yo

 to place them side by side in this way, and to call the same man both last and best? But nevertheless, he says, such are human affairs (for this seems

 and he reminded them of Pericles and others. Which of the two is [_and_] more humane in his whole opinion, and more skillful regarding the arguments i

 of magnificence, and he is not altogether precise in his language, but, as I said, he makes concessions to nature. Then shall we accept these things s

 but for the sake of the rich they set off for exile, just as the Phrygians for the sake of collecting olives, [_who_ _also_ _immediately_ _smelled_ _t

 of our counting the four in sequence, and for this reason they called all number the tetractys. And they said that man becomes better than himself in

 to be saved by the providence of God. But of fate there are many modes and differences, and it differs from chance in that the former has connection a

 with reason), prudence is a state of choosing correctness in practical matters, scientific knowledge is a state of things that are always the same and

 he says the Red Sea did not get its name because the mountains to the west of the so-called Arabian Gulf, when struck by the harsh and fiery rays of t

 allotted to the Persians for they do not call themselves Persians, with a paroxytone accent, but Persans, with the circumflex accent placed at the en

 of the seer who was buried with him but that the earth received the body of Amphiaraus alive, with his horses and chariot. Furthermore, that dragon's

 club-footed, accustomed to stealing, weaker than men, readily reviling, doing wrong, finding fault, in short, standing outside no passion, by whom we,

 having been annihilated, that of Cassander, that of Lysimachus, that of Alexander being so great, that of the Medes, that of the Syrians, that of the

 to attend to the cause. But we must go to another Alexander, consider also Epaminondas, seeing the remains of the city, present with me to supplicate

 he dug it up from its foundations, so as not even to leave the ash upon the hearths, and he distributed the children and wives of the leaders of Greec

 The many carry the stone away and these transport it to those called supervisors. For those under thirty years of age and strong in appearance, havin

 it has neither cities nor countries nor any description of other artful construction, but it is the greatest of the remaining, as some say. For from t

 the ease of nourishment but when the fifth day arrives they set out to the foothills for the sake of drink, to the watering holes of the nomads, at w

 of those feeding on the sea, along with the other things, this is more paradoxical and not easy to establish in rational belief. For it is not possibl

 from a nearby marsh he digs up the roots of reeds, and then after washing them cleanly he cuts them up with stones, and having made a smooth and stick

 they stand in a thicket by the passages of the beasts. So when the animal approaches, one man holds the bow, pressing on it with his foot, and the oth

 having a variety of differences, but completely desolate and inaccessible to all its neighbors, not because it lacked the human race from the beginnin

 of all the males, so that the sound from them may drive away the wild beasts but when night comes on, they gather the booty into folds, and from abov

 but prodigious, and its neck is such that it gets its food from the tops of the trees. That sphinxes, he says, and dog-headed creatures and kepoi are

 of porous matter flowing into the hollowest place. Near the lake a mountain appears, standing on a very large plain, reddish in color, displaying no o

 from the multitude of the animal. This Nessa lies near an exceedingly woody promontory, and it extends, when viewed in a straight line, toward both wh

 in which several springs gush forth. Next, he adds the race of the Sabaeans, the greatest in Arabia and master of every kind of prosperity. For their

 to burn cinnamon and cassia, and for the other needs in life so unequally has fortune distributed her own things, giving to some a scarcity of precio

 being ashamed, but has grasped nothing able to provide help to what has been said, it is easy to learn. Then, adding other things connected to the sam

 nor is it possible to prevail over a thing that is equally ungenerated, whether one should attempt to exert such domination from eternity or from a ce

 accepting the divine order in a subordinate way, it partakes of the demiurgic likeness not unchangeably nor indivisibly, but it turns to the paternal

 comes from the unequal distribution but the whole of chance is assigned to mortal and irrational generation. For not in an ordered way for each thing

 they are said to make circuits, with virtue cutting short the wandering, and the intense love of good things taking away the long duration of the eart

 using an example. And what is the manner of the delineation? That having taken, as if a tablet, a city and the characters of men, they would first mak

 Reasonably, the power of human free will, being easily moved and ephemeral, is completely inert as to the subsistence or change of anything, unless it

 by generation and each one individually to partake of His providence. For He did not fashion a single soul, from which each of us is partitioned off b

 once long ago who thought it worthy to offer his request three times on the same day and so many times did not fail in his request and that deed so p

 were plunged into impossible shame and speechlessness, while others were transferred to the unchangeable hope of the resurrection. And what was the ma

 of the gladiators, the one most loved by the tyrant and thought to excel against all, Lyaios by name. The one who was about to compete against him on

 When they sent an embassy to him to become their savior and redeemer, he advised the tyrant through letters to refrain from his lawless deeds, but not

 He also advised to withdraw from strife and controversy with one another, as this becomes the cause of many evils among many. But since the sickness o

 rank who also at the time of the council, being in his twelfth year from birth, spent time with Alexander. But these things after a little while but

 professes the dogma. With which she, having said such things to the emperor, shook him and immediately he writes for Arius to be released from exile.

 Constantius: See to it, he says, O bishop (for a synod of bishops is being gathered), that you do not receive him against your will. At this the a

 a whole life of ninety-eight. And there arises a contention concerning the election of the aforementioned men for those of Arius looked to Macedonius

 of the church. And he, having reached the city of Constantine, was eager to carry out the lawless act he had been ordered to do but the multitude wou

 only seventy-six. And those of the East did not consent to come together in conference with those from the West and the reason, that Paul and Athanas

 bodies were being dug up, and then, when the emperor shone forth in piety, much blood was shed. And for the many and incurable evils which Macedonius

 the imitation produced, and formed the rest of the crowd into catechumens and those being baptized, and indeed also into presbyters and deacons. There

 urged him to come to him. And the letters came to the synod in Tyre, and it cast into dejection the faction of Eusebius, which was already flowing str

 might hinder it being brought forward. In these matters, Athanasius was detected as guilty and, secretly withdrawing, fled justice. The emperor, there

 to escape the notice of everyone before the trial, lest he himself suffer some evil from the slanderers, or the plotters, seeing the irrefutable refut

 An adamant, hiding in a waterless cistern for six years, persevered. But when that place was about to be betrayed, a divine vision having revealed the

 restores his throne, he is ready to send Athanasius, but if he should not wish it, he himself would on his own become an avenger of justice. Constanti

 he takes refuge, concealing his discovery by the unsuspected nature of the maiden. For the young woman was both beautiful in appearance, and providing

 The people of Alexandria gladly received him, as if alive from the dead, with the festivity of a feast but as many as favored Arianism who were left

 of murder and impiety he quickly came upon for he falls from his rank and great wealth, and was a beggar for food itself but also having lost his ey

 he used these continuously, but where nature itself led without any method which one may indeed see even among common men. For this reason, whenever

 of the pursuit, and he led a sophistic school, as some say, at first on Chios, having nine students, at which time, seeing the fee for his teaching be

 When Megacleides challenged him, whom he did not meet on account of illness, but putting forward his adopted son Aphareus in his place, he won and a

 he is said to have contended many times. In his speeches he is both most concise and most persuasive, and by seeming not to speak powerfully, he is, i

 to him failing in their judgment. And indeed the speech against Mnesiptolemus especially refutes these for in a marvelous way he amplified the accusa

 Of the deme Cothocidae, neither of those distinguished by birth, nor of those illustrious for their wealth. In his youth, having a robust body, he lab

 Defense against the indictment of Lycurgus and Demosthenes. And the speech Against Meidias and the one Against Aeschines have been criticized for not

 the critic considers it to be agonistic and he flourished under Claudius, and for the most part he campaigned alongside Zenobia, the queen of the Osr

 gave countless things, so that he might train with him the tension of his breath. And the small passages through which, by breathing, we cool the air

 one hundred. And he gave ten thousand to the spectators. But having also boarded a trireme, he sailed around collecting money from the allies. For whi

 a sword for it is said that having thus equipped himself he spoke in public against Antipater, when he was trying to seize the orators from Athens. I

 having overlooked For the arms of the Macedonians, he would say, were overshadowing me and it was not I so much who wrote the decree, but the battle

 Theophrastus returned from exile along with the other exiles. Having stayed with his own friend Proxenus and having lost the gold, being now old and w

 he had, but also often being accused and having very well refuted the charges, he prevailed over his antagonists and he was often also deemed worthy

 it cried out the pillar of deceit denounced the deceit. Since the words of the prophets were unacceptable to the Athenians, the altar and the inscrip

 of those who kill, a public executioner. Therefore, for other reasons and because of Sabellius the Libyan, forestalling the harm to his churches, he s

 The word names the Savior a Samaritan, shaming even here the madness of the Jews who so called him, because they insulted the Samaritan who had more c

 what belongs to others, but to those who have been wronged restore their own property for God does not accept alms from plunder. The tax collector is

 to indicate the soul's dejection and lack of confidence. But see how he describes the goodness of God. For when the prodigal comes, not only does he n

 will they have? Let us flee the love of pleasure for it is impossible for the same man to be a lover of pleasure and a lover of God. That king of the

 having been shown. Indeed, in the eye, in the small compass of a particle and member, it is possible to behold the all-powerful and manifold wisdom of

 needing not a walnut-wood goad but an iron one. {1Of the same, on Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood.}1 The race of men is hard to lead to v

 The beauty of the feast in the rottenness of silence though it is a bold thing for unclean lips to utter the Lord's mysteries, looking to the present

 the injustice of creation. Having insulted the heavens, having defiled them with the poison of envy. You grieved the angels by your apostasy, thinking

 we have added below. That of the five orations, the first seems to follow another before it, or to be part of it. However, it discusses from where he

 your lyre lend your plectrum for your eulogy. For though his hands were stilled by the law of nature, yet his lyre resounds throughout the whole worl

 They who saw the Savior with their eyes would have been called blessed. For in Scripture, to see signifies to be comprehended by the mind's eye of the

 that the saints will judge the world and if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments. Vengeance on the nations is one t

 One torch-bearing star was lit, but in this one, many. That one guided the magi, this one led Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those from all nati

 one approaching God must be pure both in soul and in body and must hold fast to innocence. Christ is the fulfiller, not the debtor, of the law. He is

 the coming forth of men from the womb. For the infant, not yet existing, is formed as in a tomb, in the womb, and wrapped in the swaddling clothes of

 He refashions the corrupted vessel as a newly-formed one. And do not marvel at the reforging of the dead as something beyond comprehension. For so gre

 the manifold combination and mixture of bodies he preserves distinct in the storehouses of nature. For the nature of the body is not outside the natur

 Let no one disbelieve, a serpent spoke beforehand. A virgin gives birth so that it might not seem strange to you, a barren woman gives birth first. A

 Paul: Christ is the fulfillment of the law. The Holy Spirit, having come, fulfilled the things of the gospel whatever is in the teaching of Christ, t

 was preserving it. For creation was ashamed to acknowledge as its lord the one who was a captive to transgression and to serve him, seeing him become

 is not only pious, but also contends for piety, and they turn many of the deceived to the true God. When, therefore, nothing more profitable for the s

 expedient, but from the beginning He foresaw all things. For we humans consider things, and if we fail in the first attempt, we move on to another bu

 taking our dough, He raised it up and set it at the right hand of the Father and ungratefulness insults the good deed. He took from us what was forme

 once wandering, but now glorified, she who was once in tombs, now on thrones. For, he says, most of the things in the old [covenant] were of the econo

 and if one says to you what the burden is, say to them that you are the burden of the Lord. For I will take you up and I will dash you down, so that y

 is, but I am the one living in it and being sick. If a physician should enter the house of the one who is sick, and should take no care of him, but wh

 of me. I call to witness against you, he says, O Jews, heaven and earth, Moses does, that if you enter into the land of promise and forsake the Lord G

 having become for them of the fall. {1From the paranetic discourse concerning repentance.}1 O men, taking into memory the sentence brought from God up

 the sympathy but the change of hairs, being dry and detached and not naturally changing all at once, is truly paradoxical and unbelievable, especiall

 they run faster, and that, if with many, more than alone, and why running on the left more than on the right. For the cause of all these and similar t

 The bodies become moist due to wasting away. And such a disposition is seminal. That they also lie on their backs because of exhaustion. And this posi

 And when they flee, they leap. {1From the same, on the envy of so-called animals.}1 That the gecko, they say, envying the benefit to men, swallows its

 the pores. That those who put their feet in water do not sweat, because the water prevents melting. And sweat is a melting of things poorly built up i

 beta, theta, eta, but as many as are not, are paroxytone alpha, kappa, delta. That the name of a maidservant was Pelousion, through whom Pyrrhus the

 The son of Boreas took Aedon, the daughter of Pandareus of Doulichion, and a son, Actylus, is born to them. Aedon, then, suspecting that her husband w

 they call the wild one lettuce. That just as we say the nus and the mus, wishing to pronounce the letters in the plural, so also one must say the sigm

 to bear the calamity generally the third, Sulla, who was many times consul of the Romans, being already very old, who was also surnamed Epaphroditus

 with the voice. That the temple of Aphrodite in Thessaly is called of the unholy, because when the hetaira Lais ar 279.534a rived there, the women b

 and they called it cudgeling, because striking one another they killed one thousand five hundred, this being reported to Athens, on account of the rep

 those exiting the doors to the comic writers, because in ancient times doors were not opened as they are now with us, but in the opposite way. For, pu

 iniquities were forgiven and so on, he says, the 'were forgiven' applies to baptism, while 'were covered' is assigned to repentance. And the 'Blessed

 God called the generation, saying, My Spirit shall not remain in them, because they are flesh, since they had all become of the flesh and of impassion

 they were baptized according to the tradition and teaching of the Lord Jesus, so that also elsewhere, when it says that they were baptized into Christ

 Teaching becomes the beginning of the learning of believers. Which those from the Jews having received, and who in so much time ought to have been tea

 Men, brothers? he said to them: Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and so forth. And countless other things. So that

 The mammon of unrighteousness is such: make friends, He says, of those who are poor in this world but rich according to God. But it is better to acqui

 Nevertheless, to the point we have attained, to walk by the same rule, he calls the rule of the race according to God that which has been previously g

 the authority, he is commanded not to dare touch the soul, that is, not to inflict madness. And note that both in the case of 280.543a the just Job an

 leads into the bridal chamber and makes them partakers of the bridegroom's kindness. {1From the 5th Homily.}1 That *Let the deceitful lips be mute, wh

 to Macedonius to sacrifice to the idols and that Marcellus and Alexander, bishops of Aquileia, and Agamemnon, bishop of Tiberias, alone of almost all

gave countless things, so that he might train with him the tension of his breath. And the small passages through which, by breathing, we cool the air through the palate and, as if with certain breezes, warm the chest, and from there expel the sooty substance, having been constructed for him narrower than necessary (since this is also a great part of having a clear voice), he restored to a wider and natural state by putting oil in his mouth and running up the steep parts of places; through which actions the oil, being sucked up towards the nostrils by the force of the movement, restored the unnatural constriction of the passages to their natural function. Having given himself over to public life, since he saw some of the citizens favoring Philip, and others speaking publicly for the freedom of the city, he joined the better party, and he engaged in politics with Hyperides and Nausicles and Polyeuctus and Diotimus. Therefore, he made the Thebans allies of the Athenians, but also the Euboeans and Corcyreans and Corinthians and Boeotians and many others. And when once, while speaking publicly, he was driven out of the theatre and being despondent was going home, Eunomus the Thriasian, already an old man, happened to meet him on the road, and having learned the cause of his despondency, he both urged him to be brave and restored his spirits; and more than him, Andronicus the actor, saying that his speeches were good and as excellent as could be, but that they were lacking in delivery. And he gave himself over to Andronicus, and from him he practiced the art of delivery. Therefore, when someone once asked him what is first in rhetoric, he replied, "Delivery"; and what is second? "Delivery"; and what is third? "Delivery"; making clear that delivery is a great part of persuasion among the people. And he used to swear, as the Phalerean says, "By Earth, by springs, by rivers, by streams." And indeed once, having sworn these oaths, he caused a clamor among the people, just as when he swore by Asclepius, using the word with a proparoxytone accent. However, having studied with Eubulides the Milesian, who was second to none of the dialecticians, he corrected all things that gave cause for error. And they say that Philip the Macedonian, when he received and read the speeches of Demosthenes against him, was greatly amazed and said, "I myself, if indeed I had heard Demosthenes speaking against me, would have voted for the man for the war against me." And when one of his associates asked him which speeches were more persuasive and powerful, those of Demosthenes or Isocrates, he said that those of Demosthenes are like soldiers, for their power is warlike and exceedingly strong, but those of Isocrates are like athletes; for they provide a theatrical delight. And when the conviction imposed exile from his country on Aeschines, having pursued him on horseback, he both consoled him in other ways and gave a talent of silver to an Aeschines who was expecting the opposite. For Aeschines, seeing him riding up, and thinking he was coming to seize him for some harm, both fell before him and, covering his face, begged for his life; but he, as we said, showed toward him an act befitting not so much a rhetorician but a philosopher. And when Demosthenes suggested to him that he bear his exile nobly; "And how could I," Aeschines said, "being deprived of such a city, in which it is possible to find even those who seem 265.494α to be enemies surpassing the friends elsewhere in kindness and nobility?" However, Demosthenes, having been appointed a grain commissioner and having been accused of theft, was acquitted. However, when Philip was seizing Elatea, he himself also marched with those who fought at Chaeronea; in which battle he was seen to have abandoned his post. And when, as he was fleeing, a bramble bush caught hold of his cloak, it is said that turning around he exclaimed: "Take me alive!" And his shield bore the device of Fortune. And he honored those who had fallen in the battle with a funeral oration, perhaps in no way unworthy of the fortune that had befallen them, but not a little inferior to his other power in speeches. Then he repaired the walls of the city; and having been appointed curator of these, he paid the expense from his own substance, minas of silver

μυρίας ἔδωκεν, ἵνα αὐτῷ συνασκήσῃ τὸν τόνον τοῦ πνεύματος. Καὶ τῶν λεπτῶν δὲ τρημάτων δι' ὧν ἀναπνέοντες τὸν ἀέρα διὰ τῆς ὑπερώας ἀναψύχομεν καὶ ὥσπερ αὔραις τισὶ τὸν θώρακα διαθερμαίνομεν, καὶ τὸ λιγνῶδες ἐκεῖθεν ἐκφέρομεν, στενωτέρων αὐτῷ παρὰ τὴν χρείαν κατεσκευασμένων, ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτο μέγα μέρος ἐστὶ τῆς λαμπροφωνίας, εἰς τὸ εὐρύτερόν τε καὶ κατὰ φύσιν ἐπανήγαγεν, ἔλαιον μὲν ἐμβάλλων τῷ στόματι, ἀνατρέχων δὲ πρὸς τὰ τῶν χωρίων ἀνάντη· δι' ὧν τὸ ἔλαιον τῇ βίᾳ τῆς κινήσεως πρὸς τοὺς μυκτῆρας ἀναρροιβδούμενον τὴν παρὰ φύσιν τῶν πόρων συνίζησιν εἰς τὴν κατὰ φύσιν ἀποκατέστησε χρείαν. Ἐπιδοὺς δὲ αὑτὸν εἰς τὸ πολιτεύεσθαι, ἐπεὶ τοὺς μὲν ἑώρα τῶν πολιτῶν φιλιππίζοντας, τοὺς δὲ πρὸς τὴν τῆς πόλεως ἐλευθερίαν δημηγοροῦντας, τῆς ἀμείνονος μοίρας γίνεται, καὶ συνεπολιτεύετο Ὑπερείδῃ καὶ Ναυσικλεῖ καὶ Πολυεύκτῳ καὶ ∆ιοτίμῳ. ∆ιὸ Θηβαίους μὲν Ἀθηναίοις συμμάχους κατέστησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Εὐβοεῖς καὶ Κερκυραίους καὶ Κορινθίους καὶ Βοιωτίους καὶ πολλοὺς ἄλλους. Ἐπεὶ δέ ποτε δημηγορῶν ἐξέπεσε τοῦ θεάτρου καὶ ἀθυμῶν οἴκαδε ἀπῄει, Εὔνομος μὲν αὐτῷ ὁ Θριάσιος ἤδη πρεσβύτερος ὢν κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν συνεκύρησε, καὶ μαθὼν τῆς ἀθυμίας τὸ αἴτιον θαρρεῖν τε προὐτρέψατο καὶ ἀνεκτήσατο· καὶ τούτου πλέον Ἀνδρόνικος ὁ ὑποκριτής, τοὺς μὲν λόγους εὖ ἔχειν καὶ ὡς ἄριστα φάμενος, ἐνδεῖν δὲ αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς ὑποκρίσεως. Ὁ δὲ παραδίδωσί τε ἑαυτὸν τῷ Ἀνδρονίκῳ, καὶ τὴν τῆς ὑποκρίσεως τέχνην ἐκεῖθεν ἐξήσκησε. ∆ιόπερ ἐρομένου ποτέ τινος αὐτὸν τί πρῶτον ἐν ῥητορικῇ, ἀνεῖπεν ὑπόκρισις· καὶ τί δεύτερον; ὑπόκρισις· τί δὲ τρίτον; ὑπόκρισις· δηλῶν μέγα μέρος εἶναι τῆς ἐν τῷ δήμῳ πειθοῦς τὴν ὑπόκρισιν. Ὤμνυ δέ, ὡς ὁ Φαληρεύς φησι, Μὰ γῆν, μὰ κρήνας, μὰ ποταμούς, μὰ νάματα. Καὶ δὴ καί ποτε ὀμόσας τοὺς ὅρκους τούτους τῷ δήμῳ θόρυβον ἐνεποίησεν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀμνύναι τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν, χρώμενος τῇ φωνῇ προπαροξυτόνως. Ὅμως οὖν σχολάσας τῷ Μιλησίῳ Εὐβουλίδῃ, ὃς τῶν διαλεκτικῶν οὐδενὸς τὰ δεύτερα ἔφερεν, ἐπανωρθώσατο πάντα ὅσα παρεῖχεν αἰτίαν ἁμαρτήματος. Φασὶ δὲ τὸν Μακεδόνα Φίλιππον, ἐπεὶ τὰς κατ' αὐτοῦ δημηγορίας τοῦ ∆ημοσθένους ἐδέξατο καὶ ἀνέγνω, μέγα θαυμάσαντα εἰπεῖν ὡς Καὶ αὐτὸς ἄν, εἴπερ ἤκουσα κατ' ἐμοῦ δημηγοροῦντος ∆ημοσθένους, ἐχειροτόνησα ἂν τὸν ἄνδρα πρὸς τὸν κατ' ἐμοῦ πόλεμον. Ἐρομένου δὲ αὐτόν τινος τῶν συνήθων τίνες ἂν εἶεν πιθανώτεροι καὶ δυνατώτεροι λόγοι, ∆ημοσθένους ἢ Ἰσοκράτους, ἔφη ὡς οἱ μὲν ∆ημοσθένους στρατιώταις ἐοίκασι, πολεμικὴ γὰρ αὐτῶν καὶ σφόδρα ἡ δύναμις, οἱ δὲ Ἰσοκράτους τοῖς ἀθληταῖς· θεατρικὴν γὰρ αὐτοὺς παρέχειν τέρψιν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡ καταδίκη φυγὴν τῆς πατρίδος ἐπέβαλε τῷ Αἰσχίνῃ ἔφιππος καταδιώξας αὐτὸν τά τε ἄλλα παρεμυθήσατο, καὶ τάλαντον ἀργυρίου δέδωκε τἀναντία προσδοκῶντι Αἰσχίνῃ. Καὶ γὰρ θεασάμενος αὐτὸν ὁ Αἰσχίνης ἐπελαύνοντα, καὶ συλλαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ κακῷ νομίσας, προσέπεσέ τε καὶ συγκαλυψάμενος ἐδεῖτο σωτηρίας· ὁ δέ, καθάπερ ἔφημεν, οὐ ῥήτορι μᾶλλον ἀλλ' ἀνδρὶ πρέπον φιλοσόφῳ ἔργον εἰς αὐτὸν ἐπεδείξατο. Φέρειν δὲ γενναίως ∆ημοσθένους ὑποτιθεμένου αὐτῷ τὴν φυγήν· Καὶ πῶς ἂν δυναίμην, Αἰσχίνης ἔφη, τοιαύτης ἀποστερούμενος πόλεως, ἐν ᾗ καὶ τοὺς δοκοῦντας 265.494α ἐχθροὺς εἶναι τῶν ἀλλαχόθι φίλων χρηστότητι καὶ καλοκἀγαθίᾳ εὑρεῖν ἔστι διαφέροντας; Σιτώνης μέντοι γε καταστὰς ὁ ∆ημοσθένης καὶ κλοπῆς αἰτιαθεὶς ἀπελύθη. Φιλίππου μέντοι τὴν Ἐλάτειαν καταλαμβάνοντος, τοῖς ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ καὶ αὐτὸς συνεστρατεύσατο μαχεσαμένοις· ἐν ᾗ καὶ λιπὼν ἐφάνη τὴν τάξιν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ φεύγοντος αὐτοῦ τὸ φυτὸν ὁ βάτος ἐπελάβετο τῆς χλαμύδος, ἐπιστραφέντα λοιδορεῖται εἰπεῖν· Ζώγρει. Ἡ δὲ ἀσπὶς αὐτοῦ ἐπίσημον ἔφερε τὴν Τύχην. Τοὺς πεπτωκότας δὲ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ ἐκόσμησεν ἐπιταφίῳ, τῆς μὲν συμβάσης τύχης ἴσως οὐδὲν ἐνδεέστερον, τῆς δ' ἄλλης αὐτοῦ περὶ λόγους δυνάμεως οὐκ ὀλίγῳ ἐνδεέστερον. Εἶτα τὰ τῆς πόλεως ἐπεσκεύασε τείχη· ἐπιμελετὴς δὲ τούτων καταστὰς ἀπὸ τῆς ἰδίας οὐσίας κατεβάλετο τὸ ἀνάλωμα, ἀργυρίου μνᾶς