BOETHIUS THE THEOLOGICAL TRACTATES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY H.F. STEWART, D.D. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND E.K. RAND, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF "I.T." (1609) REVISED BY H.F. STEWART 1918 [Transcriber's Note: The paper edition of this book has Latin and English pages facing each other. This version of the text uses alternating Latin and English sections, with the English text slightly indented.] CONTENTS NOTE ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION BIBLIOGRAPHY THE THEOLOGICAL TRACTATES THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY SYMMACHI VERSUS INDEX NOTE ON THE TEXT In preparing the text of the _Consolatio_ I have used the apparatus in Peiper's edition (Teubner, 1871), since his reports, as I know in the case of the Tegernseensis, are generally accurate and complete; I have depended also on my own collations or excerpts from various of the important manuscripts, nearly all of which I have at least examined, and I have also followed, not always but usually, the opinions of Engelbrecht in his admirable article, _Die Consolatio Philosophiae des Boethius_ in the _Sitzungsberichte_ of the Vienna Academy, cxliv. (1902) 1-60. The present text, then, has been constructed from only part of the material with which an editor should reckon, though the reader may at least assume that every reading in the text has, unless otherwise stated, the authority of some manuscript of the ninth or tenth century; in certain orthographical details, evidence from the text of the _Opuscula Sacra_ has been used without special mention of this fact. We look to August Engelbrecht for the first critical edition of the _Consolatio_ at, we hope, no distant date. The text of the _Opuscula Sacra_ is based on my own collations of all the important manuscripts of these works. An edition with complete _apparatus criticus_ will be ready before long for the Vienna _Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum_. The history of the text of the _Opuscula Sacra_, as I shall attempt to show elsewhere, is intimately connected with that of the _Consolatio_. E.K.R. INTRODUCTION