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Boethius
ene 1918 · Harvard University Press
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"Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, of the famous Praenestine family of the Anicii, was born about 480 A.D. in Rome. His father was an ex-consul; he himself was consul under Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 510, and his two sons, children of a great granddaughter of the renowned Q. Aurelius Symmachus, were joint consuls in 522. His public career splendid and honourable, as befitted a man of his race, attainments, and character. But he fell under the displeasure of Theodoric, and was charged with conspiring to deliver Rome from his rule, and with corresponding treasonably to this end with Justin, Emperor of the East. He was thrown into prison at Pavia, where he wrote the Consolation of Philosophy, and he was brutally put to death in 524. His brief and busy life was marked by great literary achievement. His learning was vast, his industry untiring, his object unattainable - nothing less than the transmission to his countrymen of all the works of Plato and Aristotle, and the reconciliation of their apparently divergent views. To form the idea was a silent judgment on the learning of his day; to realize that it was more than one man could accomplish; but Boethius accomplished much. He translated the Eisagōgē of Porphyry, and the whole of Aristotle's Organon. He wrote a double commentary on the Eisagōgē, and commentaries on the Categories and the De Interpretatione of Aristotle, and on the Topica of Cicero. He also composed original treatises on the categorical and hypothetical syllogism, on Division and on Topical Differences. He adapted the arithmetic of Nicomachus, and his textbook on music, founded on various Greek authorities, was in use at Oxford and Cambridge until modern times. His five theological Tractates are here, together with the Consolation of Philosophy, to speak for themselves. Boethius was the last of the Roman philosophers, and the first of the scholastic theologians. The present volume serves to prove the truth of both these assertions."--
"Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, of the famous Praenestine family of the Anicii, was born about 480 A.D. in Rome. His father was an ex-consul; he himself was consul under Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 510, and his two sons, children of a great granddaughter of the renowned Q. Aurelius Symmachus,...
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Hugh Fraser Stewart (1863-1948) was Fellow and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Eton College.
Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945) was Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University.
S. Jim Tester was Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol.
Hugh Fraser Stewart (1863-1948) was Fellow and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Eton College. Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945) was Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. S. Jim Tester was Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol.
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