Правило 62
About the prohibition of the faithful to participate in pagan rituals and amusements.
We wish to eradicate the so-called Kalends, Vota and Vrumalia and the festival celebrated on the 1st day of the month of March forever from the life of the faithful; but even more than that - popular dances of women, which can cause great harm and destruction. We also reject and define dances and rituals performed by men or women according to some ancient and alien to Christian life custom in the name of those whom the pagans falsely call gods: none of the men should dress in women’s clothing, and none of the women should dress in clothes befitting men; also not to wear comic, or satirical, or tragic masks; do not proclaim the name of the vile Dionysus when the grapes are crushed in the winepress, and at the time when the wine is poured into barrels; do not burst into laughter out of ignorance or frivolity, which is the effect of demonic delusion. Those who from now on, knowing about these prohibitions, attempt to do any of the above, if they are clerics, we command to be thrown out, and if they are laymen, to be excommunicated.
Greek original
Τὰς οὕτω λεγομένας Καλάνδας, καὶ τὰ λεγόμενα Βοτά, καὶ τὰ καλούμενα Βρουμάλια, καὶ τὴν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τοῦ Μαρτίου μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ ἐπιτελουμένην πανήγυριν, καθάπαξ ἐκ τῆς τῶν πιστῶν πολιτείας περιαιρεθῆναι βουλόμεθα. Ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὰς τῶν γυναίων δημοσίας ὀρχήσεις, ὡς ἀσέμνους, καὶ πολλὴν λύμην καὶ βλάβην ἐμποιεῖν δυναμένας, ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὰς ὀνόματι τῶν παρ᾿ Ἕλλησι ψευδῶς ὀνομασθέντων θεῶν ἢ ἐξ ἀνδρῶν, ἢ γυναικῶν γινομένας ὀρχήσεις, καὶ τελετάς, κατά τι ἔθος παλαιόν, καὶ ἀλλότριον τοῦ τῶν Χριστιανῶν βίου, ἀποπεμπόμεθα, ὁρίζοντες, μηδένα ἄνδρα γυναικείαν στολὴν ἐνδιδύσκεσθαι, ἢ γυναῖκα τὴν ἀνδράσιν ἁρμόδιον. Ἀλλὰ μήτε προσωπεῖα κωμικά, ἢ σατυρικά, ἢ τραγικὰ ὑποδύεσθαι· μήτε τὸ τοῦ βδελυκτοῦ Διονύσου ὄνομα, τὴν σταφυλὴν ἐκθλίβοντας ἐν ταῖς ληνοῖς, ἐπιβοᾶν· μηδὲ τὸν οἶνον ἐν τοῖς πίθοις ἐπιχέοντας γέλωτα ἐπικινεῖν, ἀγνοίας τρόπῳ ἢ ματαιότητος, τὰ τῆς δαιμονιώδους πλάνης ἐνεργοῦντας. Τοὺς οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ νύν τι τῶν προειρημένων ἐπιτελεῖν ἐγχειροῦντας, ἐν γνώσει τούτων καθισταμένους, τούτους, εἰ μὲν κληρικοὶ εἶεν, καθαιρεῖσθαι προστάσσομεν· εἰ δὲ λαϊκοί, ἀφορίζεσθαι.
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