45. See Gregory, tom. ii. de Vita sua, p. 28-31. The
fourteenth, twenty-seventh, and thirty-second Orations were
pronounced in the several stages of this business. The
peroration of the last (tom. i. p. 528), in which he takes a
solemn leave of men and angels, the city and the emperor,
the East and the West, etc., is pathetic, and almost
sublime.