Eos vero qui antehac catholicae Romae ecclesiarum clerici vel orthodoxae fidei monachi fuerint, et relicto vero et orthodoxo omnipotentis Dei cultu, Apollinaris vel Eutychetis haeresim et dogmata abominanda sectati sunt vel post haec sectabuntur, omnibus poenis, quae vel prioribus legibus adversus haereticos constitutae sunt, jubemus teneri et extra ipsum quoque Romani imperii solum pelli, sicut de Manichaeis praecedentium legum instituta [AE., statuta] sanxerunt. Universi praeterea Apollinaristae vel Eutychianistae non ecclesias, non monasteria sibi constituant, parasynaxes et conventicula tam diurna quam nocturna non contrahant, neque ad domum neque ad possessionem cujusquam, neque ad monasterium, vel ad quemcunque locum, operatores sectae funestissimae congregentur.
But those who previously were clerics of the churches of catholic Rome or monks of the orthodox faith, and who, having abandoned the true and orthodox worship of almighty God, have followed or hereafter shall follow the heresy and abominable doctrines of Apollinaris or Eutyches, we command to be bound by all the penalties which have been established by earlier laws against heretics, and also to be driven out from the very soil of the Roman empire, just as the ordinances of previous laws have sanctioned concerning the Manichaeans. Moreover, let all Apollinarists or Eutychianists establish for themselves neither churches nor monasteries, let them not hold unlawful gatherings and conventicles by day or by night, and let not the workers of this most deadly sect be gathered together at anyone's house or property, nor at a monastery, nor at any place whatever.
Quod si fecerint et hoc factum fuisse domino volente constiterit, post rem in examinatione judicis approbatam domus vel possessio in quam convenerint fisco sine dilatione societur, monasterium vero ejus civitatis orthodoxae ecclesiae in cujus territorio est jubemus addici; si vero, ignorante domino, sciente vero qui pensiones domus exigit, vel conductore vel procuratore vel actore praedii parasynaxes et conventicula interdicta convenerint, conductor vel procurator, sive actor vel quicunque in domum vel possessionem vel monasterium receperint, ac passi fuerint illicitas parasynaxes conventusque celebrari; si vilis et abjectae conditionis sunt, fustibus publice et in poenam suam et in aliorum exerceantur exemplum; si honestae vero personae sunt, decem libras auri mulctati nominis fisco nostro cogantur inferre [T. 2, exsolvere]. Nullum praeterea Apollinaristam vel Eutychianistam ad aliquam jubemus aspirare militiam, nisi ad cohortalinam vel limitaneam; si qui vero extra cohortalinam vel limitaneam inventi fuerint militare soluto [AE., T. 1, 2, soluti] cingulo, honestorum hominum et palatii communione priventur, nec in aliqua nisi in ea in qua nati sunt civitate vel vico et regione versentur: si qui vero in hac alma urbe nati sunt, tara sacratissimo comitatu quam omni per provinciam metropolitana civitate pellantur.
But if they shall have done this and it shall be established that it was done with the consent of the master, after the matter has been approved in the examination of the judge, the house or property in which they assembled shall be joined to the fisc without delay; but the monastery, we order to be adjudged to the orthodox church of that city in whose territory it is. If, however, without the knowledge of the master, but with the knowledge of the one who collects the rents of the house, or of the lessee or procurator or agent of the estate, forbidden assemblies and conventicles shall have gathered, the lessee or procurator, or agent, or whoever shall have received them into the house or property or monastery, and shall have suffered illicit assemblies and gatherings to be held; if they are of vile and abject condition, let them be publicly beaten with rods, both as a punishment for themselves and as an example to others; if they are persons of honorable rank, let them be compelled to pay ten pounds of gold to our fisc. Moreover, we order that no Apollinarist or Eutychianist aspire to any military service, except to the cohortal or frontier service; but if any shall be found serving beyond the cohortal or frontier service, having laid aside the belt, let them be deprived of the communion of honorable men and of the palace, and let them dwell in no city or village or region except in that in which they were born; but if any were born in this nurturing city, let them be expelled both from the most sacred comitatus and from every metropolitan city throughout the province.
Nulli insuper Eutychianistae vel Apollinaristae publice vel privatim coetus et circulos contrahendi et de errore haeretico disputandi aut perversitatem facinorosi dogmatis asserendi tribuatur facultas: nulli etiam contra venerabilem Chalcedonensem synodum liceat aliquid vel dictare vel scribere, vel legere atque emittere aut aliorum super eadem re scripta proferre: nemo hujusmodi habere libros, et sacrilega scriptorum audeat monumenta servare. Quod si qui in his criminibus fuerint deprehensi, perpetua deportatione damnentur; eos vero qui discendi studio audierint de infausta haeresi disputantes, decem librarum auri quae fisco nostro inferendae sunt jubemus subire dispendium; omnes vero hujuscemodi chartae ac libri, qui funestum Eutychetis, hoc est, Apollinaris fuerint dogma complexi, incendio concrementur, ut facinorosae perversitatis vestigia ipsa flammis ambusta depereant, aequum namque est ut immanissima sacrilegia par poenae magnitudo percellat, Palladi parens charissime atque amantissime.
Furthermore, let no opportunity be granted to any Eutychianist or Apollinarist to hold assemblies and gatherings publicly or privately, or to dispute concerning heretical error, or to assert the perversity of a criminal dogma. Nor let it be permitted to anyone to dictate or write anything against the venerable Synod of Chalcedon, or to read and publish it, or to bring forward the writings of others on the same matter. Let no one dare to have books of this kind or to preserve the sacrilegious monuments of such writings. But if any shall have been detected in these crimes, let them be condemned to perpetual deportation. Those, however, who for the sake of learning shall have listened to those disputing concerning the ill-omened heresy, we order to undergo the loss of ten pounds of gold, which are to be paid into our treasury. But all documents and books of this kind which shall have embraced the deadly dogma of Eutyches, that is, of Apollinaris, let them be consumed by fire, so that the very traces of criminal perversity, scorched by flames, may perish; for it is just that the magnitude of the punishment should strike down the most monstrous sacrileges, Palladius, dearest and most beloved father.
illustris igitur et magnifica auctoritas tua quae hac sacratissima constitutione decrevimus, in hac alma urbe diversisque provinciis ac praecipue in Alexandrina civitate, et per universam Aegyptiacam dioecesim edictis ex more propositis, ad omnium notitiam faciat pervenire, ut cuncta quae statuitur in eos qui rei fuerint deprehensi severitas protinus exerceatur, scientibus moderatoribus provinciarum eorumque apparitoribus, defensoribus etiam civitatum. Quod si ea quae legis hujus religiosissima sanctione custodienda decrevimus aut neglexerint aut aliqua permiserint temeritate violari, denarum librarum auri mulctati fisco cogantur inferre, insuper etiam existimationis suae periculum sustinebunt. Ea quoque quae de Paganis per omne Romanum imperium aequaliter valitura perennitatis nostrae lege decrevimus instantissime in eos exerceantur, quos constiterit profanos ritus et simulacrorum impios cultus et interdicta sibi sacrilegia celebrare. Datum sub die Kalendarum Augusti Constantinopoli, divo Valentiniano viii et Anthemio viris clarissimis consulibus.
Therefore let your illustrious and magnificent authority make known to all, by edicts posted in the customary manner in this nurturing city and in the various provinces, and especially in the city of Alexandria and throughout the whole diocese of Egypt, what we have decreed by this most sacred constitution, so that the severity established against those who are found guilty may be exercised at once, with the governors of the provinces and their attendants, and also the defenders of the cities, knowing this. But if they neglect, or by any rashness permit to be violated, the things which we have decreed must be observed by the most religious sanction of this law, let them be compelled to pay a fine of ten pounds of gold into the treasury, and in addition they shall also undergo danger to their reputation. And those things also which we have decreed concerning the Pagans, to be equally valid throughout the whole Roman empire by the law of our eternity, let them be most urgently enforced against those who are established to celebrate profane rites and the impious worship of images and sacrileges forbidden to them. Given on the day of the Kalends of August at Constantinople, in the consulship of the most illustrious men the deified Valentinian for the eighth time and Anthemius.
Epistola formata Attici episcopi Constantinopolitani.
Graeca elementa, litterarum, numeros etiam ex- Prim(??)re, nullus qui vel tenuiter Graeci sermonis notitiam habet ignorat. Ne igitur in faciendis epistolis nanonicis, quas mos Latinus formatas appellat, aliqua fraus falsitatis temere praesumeretur, hoc a Patribus trecentis decem et octo Nicaea congregatis saluberrime inventum est et constitutum, ut formatae epistolae hanc calculationis seu supputationis habeant rationem, id est, ut assumantur in supputatione prima Graeca elementa Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti, hoc est, quae elementa octogenarium et quadrigentesimum et primum significant numerum, Petri quoque apostoli prima littera id est, qui numerum octogenarium significat, ejus quoque qui scribit episcopi prima littera, cujus scribitur secunda, accipientis tertia, littera civitatis quoque de qua scribitur quarta, et indictionis, quaecunque est temporis, idem qui fuerit numerus assumatur: atque ita his omnibus Graecis litteris quae, ut diximus, numeros exprimunt in unum ductis, unam quaecunque collecta fuerit summam epistola teneat: hanc qui suscipit, omni cum cautela requirat expressum, addat praeterea separatim in epistola etiam nonagenarium et nonum numerum qui secundum Graeca elementa significant Ģ.
The Letter Formed of Atticus, Bishop of Constantinople.
No one who has even a slight knowledge of the Greek language is ignorant of the Greek letters and their numerical values. Therefore, lest any fraud of falsification be rashly presumed in the making of the "canonical" letters, which Latin custom calls "formed" letters, this was most wholesomely devised and established by the three hundred and eighteen Fathers gathered at Nicaea: that formed letters should have this method of calculation or reckoning—namely, that in the reckoning there be taken the first Greek letters of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, that is, the letters which signify the number eighty, four hundred, and one; also the first letter of the apostle Peter, that is, the one which signifies the number eighty; also the first letter of the bishop who writes, the second letter of the one to whom it is written, the third letter of the recipient, the fourth letter of the city from which it is written, and the number of the indiction, whatever it is at the time, let that same number be taken up; and so, when all these Greek letters which, as we have said, express numbers are brought together into one, let the letter hold whatever single sum has been collected. Let the one who receives it seek out with all caution the sum expressed, and let him add besides, separately in the letter, also the number ninety-nine, which according to the Greek letters signifies ϙ.