The Consolation of Philosophy

distinguished from the slightly better one (X), is an opinion that is not implausible, though it has not been sufficiently proven by Naumann. If one may offer a conjecture regarding the author of a certain older commentary, the list of candidates includes Dunchad,¹) Elias, Heiric of Auxerre, a student of Lupus and teacher of Remigius,²) Martin of Laon,³) and John Scottus. A commentary by Scottus on Boethius’s Opuscula sacra Sacred Works was unearthed by E. K. Rand,⁴) and I am unsure whether the interlinear and marginal glosses in codex V, written in what are called insular letters, accord with its character.⁵) Rand (p. 12) states that because of the script,

¹) See Traube, Vorlesungen III 155; M. Esposito in Didaskaleion III 173.
²) L. c. 142 (= N. Arch. f. ält. dt. Gesch. XVIII 1893, 87); 149 (95); 151, 1 (97, 2); 182, 3 (N. Arch. XVII 404). Mon. Germ. P. L. aevi Car. III 422, 1, 2; 423, 10; 424, 3.
³) Cf. Bull. John Rylands Libr. IX (1925), 130.
⁴) Quellen u. Unters. zur lat. Phil. des Malt. I 2.
⁵) Nevertheless, standard abbreviations occur that remained in use on the European continent. Regarding the hand of Scottus, which is certainly different, see Acta Acad. Bavar. XXVI 1 (1912), and what I have written in Phil. Woch. 1924, 788, concerning a certain brief commentary by Rand.
⁶) Here you have some specimens: (12, 9 o) interjection. (12, 10 convinci) to be opposed to an informer or prince for the sake of the safety of the entire senate. (12, 12 fuscaret) to stain. (12, 14 invita) o teacher. (12, 19 captare) to desire (likewise in T). (12, 20 consimilem) rational. (12, 21 penetral) secret (likewise in T). (domus) kin (?). (12, 22) symmachus similarly or equally. (13, 5 ultro) furthermore. (13, 9 quo) whence. (13, 10) the opinion itself. (13, 14 affingitur) is composed. (13, 20) expressing the movement of the mind. (13, 22 incitari) to be provoked. (insontes) innocent. (non modo) not only. (13, 23 privatos) alienated; cf. Corp. Gloss. IV 182, 9. (ad II m. II): These words are of philosophy (sic) now; up to this point they were of fortune. (26, 23) seats which were preferred and it was the greatest dignity, if anyone resided in them (f. 30r; in margin f. 29v: These are curule chairs, where consuls descending from their chariot used to sit). (26, 24 ff.) for a triumph, a place or a type of dignity was given or announced, either a crown. Here the praise of an orator was understood. (II m. VI) The bears original: "triones" are called so as if 'earth-pullers' because they pull the earth, whence also ox in Greek is 'trion'. The southern wind itself is hot and lightning-like (besides Isidore, Etymologies III 71, 7; cf. the lacunose passage in Festus 339 M., 540 Thewr., 456, 1 L.). (43, 15) Fabricius was king of the Romans, who is called faithful for this reason, because he saved the republic. He himself answered the envoys of the Samnites, etc. (see Servius, Aeneid VI 844). (l. l. 16) he is called rigid for this reason, because he killed himself. (55, 4) namely so that they may not have anxiety, nor he himself have their anxieties.