* Theodoric the Great appoints his friend Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher, to the rank of consul of the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor.

Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths.

Boethius was born to a patrician family ; his father Manlius Boethius was appointed consul in 487.

He held many important offices during Theodoric's reign, including being appointed consul for the year 510, but Boethius confesses in his De consolatione philosophiae that his greatest achievement was to have both his sons made consuls for the same year ( 522 ), and finding himself sitting " between the two consuls and as if it were a military triumph let your largess fulfil the wildest expectations of the people packed in their seats around you.

Prominent during his lifetime for as a patron of secular learning, consul for the year 485, and for his support of Pope Symmachus in the schism over his election, Memmius Symmachus was executed with his son-in-law Boethius after being charged with treason.

In 522, the same year his two sons were appointed joint consuls, Boethius accepted the appointment to the position of magister officiorum, the head of all the government and court services.

Memmius Symmachus had three daughters ( Rusticiana, Galla and Proba ) and adopted the young Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius when his father died ; later Boethius married Rusticiana, and the couple had two sons, Symmachus and Boethius, both consuls in 522.

* Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ), who also wrote a theological treatise On the Trinity, repeated the Macrobian model of the Earth in the center of a spherical cosmos in his influential, and widely translated, Consolation of Philosophy.

Boethius ( 480 ?- 524 ), in his brief Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric, continues Aristotle's taxonomy by placing rhetoric in subordination to philosophical argument or dialectic.

* Boethius, ( c. 480-525 ), Roman philosopher and theologian

Hector Boece (; also spelled Boyce or Boise ; 1465 – 1536 ), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Aberdeen.

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ( 5th century ), influential Christian philosopher

The universal is reduced to an emission of sound ( flatus vocis ), in conformity with Boethius ' definition: Nihil enim aliud est prolatio ( vocis ) quam aeris plectro linguae percussio.

*, a summary of Boethius ' ( Consolation of Philosophy ), by Simon de Fresne ( Hist.

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ( 480 –? 525 ), one of the last great philosophers of Rome.

While his breadth of interest was large, Metochites's culture rests wholly on a Greek basis, though Planudes, by his translations from the Latin ( Cato, Ovid, Cicero, Caesar, and Boethius ), vastly enlarged the Eastern intellectual horizon.

Of their chiefs were here killed Hugh, son of Hugh O ' Conor ; Dermot Roe, son of Cormac O ' Melaghlin, the two sons of O ' Kelly ; Brian an Doire, the son of Manus ; Carragh Inshiubhail, son of Niall O ' Conor ; Boethius Mac Egan ; the two sons of Loughlin O ' Conor ; Donnell, son of Cormac Mac Dermot ; Finnanach Mac Branan ; Cumumhan Mac Cassarly, and others besides.

The concept of musica was split into four major kinds by the fifth century philosopher, Boethius: musica universalis, musica humana, musica instrumentalis, and musica divina.

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer ( d. 524 )

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher, is arrested on charges of having conspired against Theodoric the Great.

* Boethius, Roman philosopher, is executed without trial, probably at Pavia, after a prison term during which he has written the " Consolation of Philosophy " ( approximate date ).

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer ( or 524 )

Based mainly on Aristotle, the first medieval philosopher to work on dialectics was Boethius.

The French scholar Pierre Courcelle has argued that Boethius studied at Alexandria with the Neo-Platonist philosopher Ammonius Hermiae.

* Hector Boece ( or Boethius, or Boyce ) ( 1465-1536 ) Scottish philosopher and historian

Macrobius ' Commentary upon Scipio's Dream was known to the sixth-century philosopher Boethius, and was later valued throughout the Middle Ages as a primer of cosmology.

" He prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval philosopher Boethius in particular.

In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change.

However, throughout all this turmoil, unlike Boethius, another Christian philosopher of the 6th century, he was never charged with being a covert supporter of a revived Roman Empire.

Victorinus wrote a brief treatise De Definitionibus, that is, On Definition, which lists and discusses the various types of definitions utilized by rhetoricians and philosopher, recommending the " substantial definitions " proferred by the latter ( prior to the late 19th century this work was ascribed to Boethius.

* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 96 BC ), son of the same named consul of 122 BC.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 54 BC ), son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 96 BC ), supporter of Pompey and character in Lucan's Pharsalia

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 32 ), father of the Emperor Nero and maternal uncle to Valeria Messalina

Other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon ( 336 BC ), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar ( 44 BC ).

* Armand Joseph Dubernad ( 1741 – 1799 ), financial trader, consul general of the Holy Roman Empire, deputy, mayor and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club of Brittany.

* Eusebius ( consul 347 ), Roman consul in 347

* Eusebius ( consul 359 ), Roman consul in 359

* Joseph Smith ( 1682 – 1770 ), British art collector and consul at Venice

Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius ( consul in 335 ), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a woman of Greek origin.

Upon the death of her first husband, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus ( consul 71 BC ), an eminent patrician.

The Roman consul Cencius now suggested the election of Odo, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia ( afterwards pope Urban II ), but this was rejected by some of the cardinals on the grounds that the translation of a bishop was contrary to ecclesiastical law.

Except for Legio I to IV, which were the consular armies ( two per consul ), other units were levied by campaign.

Treated with favor by the Emperors Leo I and Zeno ( ruled 474 – 475 and 476 – 491 ), he became magister militum ( Master of Soldiers ) in 483, and one year later he became consul.

* Zeno ( consul 448 ) ( 447-451 ), Roman general and consul

The latter's brother C. Licinius Crassus ( consul 168 BC ) produced the third line of Licinia Crassi of the period, the most famous of whom was L. Licinius Crassus the orator ( consul 95 BC ), the greatest Roman orator before Cicero and the latter's childhood hero and model.

In response to the first threat, Rome's best general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( consul in 74 BC ), was sent to defeat Mithridates, followed shortly by his brother Varro Lucullus ( consul in 73 BC ).