The three distinguished and devoted scholars did much to save Greek culture at a time when its extinction was threatened, and Boëthius particularly left a series of writings that are truly encyclopedic in character.
In Italy Boëthius and Cassiodorus won for themselves imperishable renown as the fosterers of classical and patristic studies in an age when these were in danger of being utterly forgotten.
In any case Boëthius did great service in preserving the continuity of Western culture by his hearty encouragement and careful prosecution of classical studies at a time when these were threatened with utter neglect.
Two of their very best men, Boëthius and Symmachus, were by him kept for a long time prisoners at Rome and then put to death.
While Boëthius was in prison at Pavia, he wrote a book called The Consolations of Philosophy, so beautiful that the English king Alfred translated it into Saxon four centuries later.
Boëthius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honours his country could bestow.
Böëthius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honour his country could bestow.
Boëthius seems to have spent some months in prison after his trial, and was perhaps transferred from Pavia to "the ager Calventianus", a few miles from Milan.
It took place in the Senate-house at Rome; Boëthius was apparently languishing in prison at Pavia, where he had been arrested along with Albinus.
Up to the year 523, Boëthius appears to have enjoyed to the full the favour of Theodoric.
But all these acts of righteous remonstrance against official tyranny, though from the names given they seem to have been chiefly directed against Gothic ministers, had not forfeited for Boëthius the favour of his sovereign.
The political charge against Boëthius was blended with one of another kind, to us almost unintelligible, a charge of sacrilege and necromancy.
In order to put the matter before himself in all its aspects he prepared an imaginary dialogue, after the model offered by Boëthius and Cicero, between himself and Saint Augustine.
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