The Consolation of Philosophy (1823) - Page 27

ANICIUS MANLIUS TORQUATUS

SEVERINUS BOETHIUS

ON THE CONSOLATION OF

PHILOSOPHY

BOOK V.

PROSE I.

She had spoken original: "Dixerat, Philosophia.", and was turning the course of her speech to handle and settle other certain matters. Then I said, "Your exhortation is indeed right, and truly worthy of your authority. But I am experiencing in reality what you said a while ago—that the question of Providence is entangled with many others original: "implicitam" (1).. For I ask whether you think chance exists at all, and what exactly it is." Then she said, "I hasten to fulfill the debt of my promise, and to open for you the way by which you may be carried back to your fatherland original: "In patriam reducaris" (c).. These things, even if they are very useful to know, are nevertheless slightly turned aside from the path of our intended topic."

1 Entangled with many Delph. Hack. — 2 Thus she began Vulg. Ms. Rittersh. and

NOTES


a To handle other certain matters] For the things that are now to be said concerning chance do not pertain to the present undertaking, except as a sort of appendix or addition, and, as they say, per accidens by accident. Therefore, Philosophy will say immediately, "these things, even if they are very useful to know, are nevertheless slightly turned aside from the path of our intended topic."
	b Carried back to your fatherland] "Usurped by the authors," says Servius, as in the question "where they either add or subtract"

a To handle other certain matters] For the things that are now to be said concerning chance do not pertain to the present undertaking, except as a sort of appendix or addition, and, as they say, per accidens by accident. Therefore, Philosophy will say immediately, "these things, even if they are very useful to know, are nevertheless slightly turned aside from the path of our intended topic."

b Carried back to your fatherland] "Usurped by the authors," says Servius, as in the question "where they either add or subtract"