--- Frank Morgret <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> I, too, believe that Boethius belongs in your list.
>
> And now a query.
>
> Does anyone else on the list see <i> The Consolations of Philosophy
> </i>
> as a successful attempt on the part of Boethius to assure his readers
> he
> has kept the faith but to word it in such a way that his immediate
> readership will not be at risk from the reprisals of a maniacal Arian
> emperor?
> Frank
I don't know. I've never thought of it that way, but there are others
on this list of far greater auctoritee than myself in this mateere.
How would you see it as assuring his readers that he has kept the
faith?
Oriens.
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