Consolation of Philosophy () is a philosophical work by Boethius, written around the year 524.

Watts on Boethius, God is like a spectator at a chariot race ; He watches the action the charioteers perform, but this does not cause them.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues ( as was Boethius himself ).

Another important source for the influence of Proclus on the Middle Ages is Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, which has a number of Proclus principles and motifs.

The word is Latin, meaning " the four ways " ( or a " place where four roads meet "), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to Boethius or Cassiodorus in the 6th century.

The quadrivium is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, although the term " quadrivium " was not used until Boethius early in the sixth century.

* It is in this last sense, theology as an academic discipline involving rational study of Christian teaching, that the term passed into English in the fourteenth century, though it could also be used in the narrower sense found in Boethius and the Greek patristic authors, to mean rational study of the essential nature of God – a discourse now sometimes called Theology Proper.

* 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 ).

He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation ( staff notation ) that replaced neumatic notation ; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages ( after the writings of Boethius ).

Rogers also discusses this issue in her book " Anselm on Freedom ", using the term " four-dimensionalism " rather than " eternalism " for the view that " the present moment is not ontologically privileged ", and commenting that " Boethius and Augustine do sometimes sound rather four-dimensionalist, but Anselm is apparently the first consistently and explicitly to embrace the position.

The work is modelled on Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, evident in Adelard's vocabulary and phraseology.

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

Boethius ' exact birth date is unknown.

According to John Moorhead, the traditional view is that Boethius studied in Athens based on Cassiodorus's rhetoric describing Boethius ' learning in one of his letters.

However, Moorhead observes that the evidence supporting Boethius having studied in Alexandria " is not as strong as it may appear ", and concludes " Perhaps Boethius was able to acquire his formidable learning without travelling.

Although Boethius is believed to have been born into a Christian family, some scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have conjectured that he abandoned Christianity for paganism, perhaps on his deathbed.

At a meeting of the Royal Council in Verona, the referandarius Cyprianus accused the ex-consul Caecina Decius Faustus Albinus of treasonous correspondence with Justin I. Boethius leapt to his defense, crying, " The charge of Cyprianus is false, but if Albinus did that, so also have I and the whole senate with one accord done it ; it is false, my Lord King.

Then there is the matter that with his previous ties to Theodahad, Boethius apparently found himself on the wrong side in the succession dispute following the untimely death of Eutharic, Theodoric's announced heir.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

Saint Isidore of Seville ( Spanish: or, Latin: ) ( c. 560 – 4 April 636 ) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, " the last scholar of the ancient world ".

An oft-quoted though unofficial SCA motto is " The Middle Ages as they should have been ".

In an oft-quoted phrase, Ranjitsinhji said of Grace that " he turned the old one-stringed instrument ( i. e., the cricket bat ) into a many-chorded lyre " and that " the theory of modern batting is in all essentials the result of W. G.

( the only exceptions being the Cod Wars, the Turbot War and Operation Fork — all of which had no casualties ) Jack Levy ( 1988 ) made an oft-quoted assertion that the theory is " as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations ".

Miró's oft-quoted interest in the assassination of painting is derived from a dislike of bourgeois art, which he believed was used as a way to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy.

An oft-quoted Celtic etymology ( as in the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, accepting the view of Padel ( 1985 )) is Cornish * din " fort " ( Celtic * dūn-" fort "

Paxman took the opportunity to dismiss as " inaccurate " the attribution to himself, which was, in fact, Louis Heren, of the oft-quoted " Why is this lying bastard lying to me?

An oft-quoted case is that of DDT, an example of a widely used ( and maybe misused ) pesticide, which was brought to public attention by Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.

An oft-quoted definition of the term is " the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing.

Supporters of product based planning suggest that this overcomes difficulties that arise from assumptions about what to do and how to do it by focusing instead on the goals and objectives of the project-an oft-quoted analogy is that PBS defines where you want to go, the WBS tells you how to get there.

It is oft-quoted – " Nazranis are Hindu in culture, Christian in faith and Syrian in liturgy ".

Shankly was noted for his personality and his wit ; as a result, he is oft-quoted.

An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form.

Another oft-quoted source is the supposed Irish term Comh-Roghna, said to translate as " close pals ", or mutual friends.

The oft-quoted phrase " rich beyond the dreams of avarice " is spoken by Mrs. Beverley in the play's second act.

One oft-quoted statistic is that the Ventures outsold The Beatles 2-to-1 in Japan.

Macdonald's oft-quoted description from Scotland's Gift: Golf is as follows:

Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with the oft-quoted remark in favor of innovation: " Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Guest's most famous poem is the oft-quoted " Home ":

( A similar oft-quoted claim states that von Lettow-Vorbeck also apologized for the " ungentlemanly death " of British hunter Frederick Selous at the hands of one of his snipers, however this claim is not supported by contemporary evidence.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 15 ( 47 CFR 15 ) is an oft-quoted part of Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) rules and regulations regarding unlicensed transmissions.

In an oft-quoted tale it is related that he once, at Tower Hill Underground Station via the public address system, regaled commuters with the deadpan announcement, " I used to be somebody.