gs of Boetius, on his religion and philosophy, and
on the manuscripts and editions, a critical apparatus, and notes. The
text of the second was based on the fullest collation of MSS. up to
that time, though a considerable number of MSS. still remained to be
collated. In addition to an account of the MSS. used, it gives the
Book of Lupus, "De Metris Boetii," the "Vita Boetii" contained in some
MSS., "Elogia Boetii," and a short list of the commentators,
translators and imitators of the _Consolatio_. It contains also an
account of the metres used by Boetius in the _Consolatio_, and a list
of the passages which he has borrowed from the tragedies of Seneca.
The work also includes the five treatises, four of them Christian, of
which mention has been made above. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version
of the _De Consolatione_, with literal English translation, notes and
glossary, was published by S. Fox (1835) and again by W.J. Sedgefield
(1900); that of G. Colville (Colvile, Coldewel, 1556) was republished
by E.B. Bax (1897); translation (mixed prose and verse) by H.R. James
(1897). Queen Elizabeth's "Englishings" was reprinted in 1899; on the
style, see A. Engelbrecht in _Sitzungsber. der Wiener Akad. der
Wissenschaften_ (1902), pp. 15-36. The _De Institutione Arithmetica,
De Institutione Musica_, and the doubtful _Geometria_ (for which see
G. Ernst, _De Geometricis illis quae sub Boethii nomine nobis tradita
sunt quaestiones_, 1903; A.P. McKinlay in _Harvard Classical Studies_,
1907; M. Cantor, _Geschichte der Mathematik_, i., Leipzig, 1894; G.
Friedlein, _Gerbert, die Geometric des Boethius, und die indischen
Ziffern_, Erlangen, 1861, are edited by G. Friedlein (Leipzig, 1867);
German translation of the _De Musica_, with explanatory notes, by O.
Paul (Leipzig, 1872), and on the sources W. Miekley, _De Boethii libri
de musica primi fontibus_ (Jena, 1899). Commentary on Aristotle's _De
Interpretatione_ [Greek: peri hermaeneias]), ed. C. Meiser (Leipzig,
1877), and on Porphyry's _Isagoge_, ed. S. Brandt (Vienna, 1906).

AUTHORITIES.--On Boetius generally, see J.G. Sutterer, _Der letzte
Romer_ (Eichstadt, 1852); H. Usener, _Anecdoton Holderi_ (Leipzig,
1877); H.F. Stewart, _Boethius: an Essay_ (Edinburgh, 1891); T.
Hodgkin, _Italy and her Invaders_, iii. bk. iv. ch. xii. (1896); A.
Ebert, _Allgemeine Geschichte der Litt. des Mittelalters_, i. (1889);
Teuffel-Schwa