Canon 51 Mimes, beast hunts and stage dances forbidden

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου

The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map

This holy and ecumenical council altogether forbids the performing of the so-called mimes and their shows, and then indeed also of the spectacles of the hunts, and of the dances on the stage. And if anyone despises the present canon and gives himself over to any of these forbidden things, if he be a cleric, let him be deposed; and if a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Καθόλου ἀπαγορεύει ἡ ἁγία αὕτη καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ σύνοδος, τοὺς λεγομένους μίμους, καὶ τὰ τούτων θέατρα, εἶτά γε μὴν καὶ τὰ τῶν κυνηγίων θεώρια, καὶ τὰς ἐπὶ σκηνῆς ὀρχήσεις ἐπιτελεῖσθαι. Εἰ δέ τις τοῦ παρόντος κανόνος καταφρονήσει, καὶ πρός τι ἑαυτὸν τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων τούτων ἐκδῷ, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω, εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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