Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiae Libri Quinque (Classic Reprint)

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Patere ergo, Snunmssms Dnnvmun, virum pariter nobilem, doctum, et sanctum Regiam ingredi, ceteris auc toribus Tuis annumerari, et inter illas, quas in literis felici ter consumis, operas Tibi audiendum proponi: sanctitatem hic cum doctrina, utramque cum nobilitate sic animadvertes conjunctam, ut quicquid ibidem erit obviam, id augusta Tua baud indignum origine, et ad Tuam scientiam augen dam et ad cotonam aternam, cui reges omnes studere de bent, consequendam conducere plurimum possit.

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Born of a distinguished family, Boethius received the best possible education in the liberal arts in Athens and then entered public life under Theodoric the Ostrogoth, ruler of Italy. Boethius obtained the highest office, but was later accused of treason, imprisoned, and executed. In the dungeon of Alvanzano, near Milan, during his imprisonment, he composed "The Consolation of Philosophy," a remarkable piece of prose literature as well as philosophy. Boethius's outlook, like that of all the Church Fathers, was Platonistic, but he preserved much of the elementary logic of Aristotle. Boethius reported in his commentaries the views of Aristotelians even when they disagreed with his Platonism. Thus he created an interest in Aristotle in subsequent centuries and provided a basis for the introduction of Aristotle's works into Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Boethius was put to death in 526.

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