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  • Virgil, and the "Consolatio" of Servius Sulpicius.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • See also the Consolatio ad Liviam, 47–50 for the repetition of the same idea.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • In step with the advice in “Consolatio” that she should master her feelings, she adopted a stiff-upper-lip attitude that won her applause.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • On Livia as a successor to women of the golden age, see Consolatio ad Liviam, 343; on the naked men, see Cassius Dio, 58.2.4.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Boethius, however, casts himself as student rather than teacher in the Consolatio.

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • While a good number use real or realistically-described characters, there are also many where the participants are allegorical figures, like Boethius's Lady Philosophy in the Consolatio or

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • In his later treatise Consolatio philosophiae Boethius states that

    Medieval Theories of Future Contingents Knuuttila, Simo 2006

  • Alfred translated Bede's Historia, Orosius, and Boethius's Consolatio into the vernacular.

    616-80 2001

  • Translator of Boethius's Consolatio; creator of English versification; recaster of the English vocabulary by adding Continental grace to the ruder Anglo-Saxon word treasury.

    1347-55 2001

  • Astura, a _Consolatio_, of which only fragments survive.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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