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boethius
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What does boethius mean?
proper noun
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–524 CE), Roman historian and philosopher from the Early Middle Ages.
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Fragments of this work are preserved to us, chiefly in Stobaeus, a few in Boethius and other writers.
How many of us were scattered by Theodoric, while Boethius was in exile, into the different quarters of the world, like sheep whose shepherd has been struck down!
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One might as well repeat the learned Isidorus his counsels about the panels of green marble (that refreshes the eye), and Boethius his censures on library walls of ivory and glass, as fall back on the ancient ideas of librarians dead and gone.