The Consolation of Philosophy

from both prose writers and poets have been brought forward in sufficient number by Murmellius (Migne LXIII 885 sqq.), Schepss, and Henricus Huettinger.1) Regarding sources, I have only inserted similar passages that I am certain Boethius remembered, such as those from Martianus Capella. For the rest, it seemed sufficient to refer the reader here to existing editions and commentaries. For what, I ask, can come of the fact that, for example, Boethius (I m. II, 6) writes with the sky opened, Seneca twice uses with the sky (or ether) opened, Boethius (III m. VIII, 17) and Seneca both have star-bearing pole, and Tityos is introduced both in Boethius (III m. XII, 39) and in Horace’s Odes III 4, 77? I think Huettinger (1902, 72) judged more correctly regarding Seneca than Sitzmann (who suggests there is almost no verse in Boethius that does not seem to have been lifted from Seneca): "I do not know if Peiper is correct in assuming that all those passages from Seneca were truly before Boethius's eyes." See the Index of passages and meters, which Peiper repeats (p. 219 sqq.) from Seneca's tragedies.

III. ON THE INTERPRETERS AND COMMENTATORS OF THE CONSOLATION.

Having referred the reader to Peiper’s Prolegomena,2) Ueberweg’s book already cited, and the handbooks of Groeber and Paul (Grundriß der roman.