Byzantine Teaching Miscellany

...he delays respectfully, as one delays [stepping] upon the orator's platform The "bema" was the raised platform where orators and judges spoke in ancient Greece.
within the bodies; but in this way, you should learn that those who are insolent and cause delays original: "ἀναβάλλεσθαι" (anaballesthai) also create [wasted] time. For while
some hope for a bath, you should be cautious of how such people give
speeches, which also turn grief into a "not yet" This implies a rhetorical strategy of stalling or procrastination to avoid facing difficult emotions or consequences.. They went away from the
speech regarding every part [as says] the Theologian original: "θεολόγος" (theologos). In Byzantine manuscripts, this title almost exclusively refers to St. Gregory of Nazianzus, a 4th-century Church Father renowned for his rhetoric.; who himself also approached and
was at rest, and they made him to be modeled; thus seeing frankincense
from of old, and oaks, and clippings
in an inquiry original: "ἀνακρίσει" (anakrisei) — a preliminary legal examination in Athenian law.; an examination; you will consider rumors as a favor
before the houses of the wealthy, a living creature? since after ascending, or generally
from there he sends [them] out. He is struck back, but as if someone
Libanius A famous 4th-century CE Greek teacher of rhetoric from Antioch.; those tablets far from the measure and they will
burn in the [place] of the power of danger. In the plural A grammatical note referring to the number of the noun or verb.
[the word] says, so that there is a concept; it is necessary to clarify; because not even
by anyone before through the marketplace; and messengers or towards
certain fears. Not from the war that happened to us, since
not having our city as a portion; and some but outside so that
not inside the leisure; and carrying away; he says, "he was driving away."
From which source also the Theologian [speaks] to all: some as private matters, to which we yielded.
And those hoping for all and all; and keep a distance.
From which also condemningly; it has the power of the
addition original: "προσθήκης" (prosthekes) — likely referring to a grammatical prefix that changes the meaning of a root word.; having been revealed by being able to be
ceased A complex wordplay possibly linking "revealed" (apokalyptos) with the idea of a "pause" (paula).; and revealed; that which does not escape notice in all things.
He is troubled original: "θορυβάζεται" (thorybazetai) — to be in a state of noise, tumult, or mental agitation.; many are the theater of the foolish; not all
are invited, whom they followed except; destructively
from "to murder"; and "he destroys," instead of "he releases" and
"he makes vanish." These things with those falling upon [them], so that also
suddenly having gone away and he snatches away, but so that as before having seized
you shall be present to all; and "he snatches away" [is accented] on the penultimate syllable, instead of danger. The scribe is providing a grammatical instruction on "paroxytone" accentuation to distinguish between different meanings or forms of a word.