Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Boethius

Last of the Latin authors, properly so called (470-524). Alfred the Great translated his De Consolatione Philosophiae into Anglo-Saxon.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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