"[I]n the year 522 A.D... his two sons, young as they were... were created joint Consuls and rode to the senate-house attended by a throng of senators, and the acclamations of the multitude. Boethius... delivered the public speech in the King's honour... Within a year he was a solitary prisoner at Pavia, stripped of honours, wealth, and friends, with death hanging over him, and a terror worse than death, in the fear lest those dearest to him should be involved in the worst results of his downfall. It is in this situation that... 'Consolation of Philosophy' brings Boethius before us... as seated in his prison distraught.., indignant at the injustice of his misfortunes, and seeking relief for his melancholy in writing verses... Suddenly there appears... the Divine figure of Philosophy, in the guise of a woman of superhuman dignity and beauty, who... convinces him of the vanity of regret for the lost... fortune, raises his mind... to the contemplation of the true good, and makes clear... the mystery of the world's moral government."
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