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“Anicius Boethius attempted to document the speed of light, but after being accused of treason and sorcery, was decapitated for his scientific endeavors.”
January 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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This 541 CE ivory #diptych leaf from the #Bargello depicts Basilius, the very last ordinary #Roman #consul in history. But to understand what #Justinian actually abolished the following year, we have to look back at how Rome retroactively manufactured its own constitutional history. #ReliefWednesday
CONSULAR DIPTYCH LEAF OF ANICIUS FAUSTUS ALBINUS BASILIUS, 541 CE. MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL BARGELLO ​This ivory plaque marks the last ordinary Roman consulship. The top border bears a crisp Latin inscription reading "ANIC FAVS ALBIN BASILIVS V C" (Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius, Vir Clarissimus). Below, the consul Basilius stands in rigid, heavily patterned consular robes, holding a sceptre and the cloth (mappa) used to start the circus games. Beside him stands a helmeted, draped personification of Roma, placing a hand on his shoulder in authorisation. At their feet, two miniature registers depict the chaotic energy of the chariot races, featuring small horses, drivers, and gesturing spectators. The carving shows the shift towards the Byzantine style, with elongated proportions, stiff drapery, and large, expressive eyes staring forward. The object is a striking monument to the final breath of a millennium-long Roman Republican political institution.
July 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Fuck Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525)

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April 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Fuck Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (AD 480–524/525)

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August 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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'Now, although in the case of bodies endowed with sentiency the qualities of external objects affect the sense-organs, and the activity of mind is preceded by a bodily affection which calls forth the mind's action upon itself, and…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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September 20, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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A #SpoliaSunday extra: the #sarcophagus of the most illustrious senator, consul, and urban prefect #Anicius Probus, grandfather of two emperors, brutally reused by #NicholasV in c. 1450-1455 as the #baptismal #font of Old St Peter's and now who knows where in New St Peter's.
SARCOPHAGUS OF ANICIUS PROBUS, 393 CE, REUSED C. 1450. ST PETER'S Sextus Claudius Anicius Petronius Probus (d. 393) was one of the most important members of the predominant noble family of late-antique Rome, the Anicii. His wife built him a grandiose mausoleum attached to the apse of Old St Peter's for his sarcophagus. The front face seen here shows five arched divisions, the centre with Christ holding the crux gemmata and flanked by Peter and Paul; the other arches contain reliefs of male figures, possibly apostles. Probus was left to rest in peace until Nicholas V Parentucelli decided to demolish and extend the apse of the basilica, demolishing the mausoleum of Probus in the process. Whatever remained of poor Probus was dumped out and Nicholas V used his sarcophagus as the basilica's baptismal font, or more precisely set a smaller basin within the box. The arrangement in the photo obviously postdates the new (1698) font by Carlo Fontana and must reuse elements from the Renaissance font, but the "tazza" or basin seems to have been removed and replaced with a marble panel. Above is a sort of small reservoir which must have contained holy water that would emerge from the hole at centre. This reservoir seems to have been made of a spolia basin with a C15 lid, and is emerging from a niche between stone curtains being held back by two angels. This ensemble was said in 1933 to be in a corridor next to the chapel of the Pietà but I can't confirm this.
December 15, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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​I'll meet you in the #Forum of #Sibidius. Where? This #EpigraphyTuesday gives us a statue base found in this otherwise mysterious forum near #palazzoAltemps in #Rome. Today in the #VaticanMuseums, it honors the forum's builder, Acilius Glabrio Sibidius himself. #AncientBluesky 🏺
DEDICATION ON STATUE BASE, 438 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS ​Here we find a large white marble statue base with an inscription that notably has its rubrication, the red paint in the incised letters, intact or restored, making the text leap out at the reader. This C5 honorific text dedicates a togate statue to the high-ranking official Acilius Glabrio Sibidius from his powerful son, Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus, the ordinary consul for the year 438. The text lists the father's career, including serving as Vicar of the Seven Provinces of Gaul and founder of the local forum. The letterforms mimic the elegant, serif-heavy Filocalian or Damasian style of the late C4, but the execution betrays a distinct technical decline in monumental craftsmanship, where lines visibly droop downward to the right, vertical stems wobble, and poor layout planning forces the word ACHAIA to clumsily breach the right-hand frame. The "Forum of Sibidius" mentioned here is entirely absent from narrative histories. Instead, topographers believe it was a late antique urban renewal project that repaved and monumentalised the old C2 wine market, the Forum Vinarium, which sat in this pocket of the northern Campus Martius. When the base was discovered near piazza di S. Apollinare, right by palazzo Altemps, clustered alongside it were two other bases dedicated to Faustus's maternal great-grandfather and his father-in-law. Far from just a public square, this lost forum functioned as a dynastic monumental space where the great late-antique Acilii and Anicii families could display their familial pride and political dominance before the forum faded into medieval obscurity.
June 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power? Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever? And yet antiquity is full of examples, and these days also, of kings whose happiness has…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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September 21, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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'Now I would fain also reason with thee a little in Fortune's own words. Do thou observe whether her contentions be just. "Man," she might say, "why dost thou pursue me with thy daily complainings? What wrong have I done thee? What goods…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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August 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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„O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.“

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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January 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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A 'Q' with a view out of the text onto you, the reader

BnF MS Latin 17814; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Consolatione philosophiae, cum commentario Remigii Autissiodorensis; 10th century (last quarter); England (Canterbury, Christ Church?); f.45v
August 24, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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For roughly 1000 years, all European and many African and west Asian musicians studied at least one text: De institutione musica by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. It was still fairly prevalent well into the late 1800s and one of many philosophical texts Boethius contributed to western academia.
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June 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Then said I: 'Thou knowest thyself that ambition for worldly success hath but little swayed me. Yet I have desired opportunity for action, lest virtue, in default of exercise, should languish away.'
Then she: 'This is that "last…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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June 8, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Then said I: 'This is very true. I see that the vicious, though they keep the outward form of man, are rightly said to be changed into beasts in respect of their spiritual nature; but, inasmuch as their cruel and polluted minds vent…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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September 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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I read The Consolation of Philosophy, by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Victor Watts translation, 1969, rev. 1999).
Written while in prison for a trumped up charge of treason, for which he was executed (and brutally tortured, though accounts vary as to details) in 524 AD.
July 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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'I quite agree,' said I, 'truly all thy reasonings hold admirably together.'
Then said she: 'What value wouldst thou put upon the boon shouldst thou come to the knowledge of the absolute good?'
'Oh, an infinite,' said I, 'if only I…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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August 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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The Roman philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480–525/26), was a hugely important figure in the history of Western Music. His influential translations of Ancient Greek philosophies of music framed the art as a manifestation of nature's interconnectedness and unity.
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The Architect of the Medieval Mind: Boethius and the Preservation of Logic
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The Architect of the Medieval Mind: Boethius and the Preservation of Logic
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c.
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April 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Peter Glassgold’s translation of Boethius’ poetry got a great review by Rachel Hadas in the Times Literary Supplement: www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...

You can also read his interview with @danadelibovi.bsky.social in Cable Street: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
Poems from Boethius’s farewell to life
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c.480–524 CE), statesman, philosopher and scholar whose aim was to translate the entire works of Plato and Aristotle
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February 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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“Quid tantos” by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius #nowplaying #radio3
May 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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– Boécio

A Consolação da Filosofia

[Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius - Consolatio Philosophiae].
May 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Kdybys mlčel, zůstal bys filozofem.
© Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boëthius aka "Poslední Říman", * asi 480, † 524 nebo 525. Krutá ironie dějin: Sám ve funkci poradce krále Theodoricha nemlčel, což ho nakonec po obvinění z velezrady stálo život.
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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🎧 Consolation of Philosophy
by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

★★★½ 3.8/5
Reviewed by James Cooper

https://audiobooksoul.com/reviews/consolation-of-philosophy

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🎧 Consolation of Philosophy - Audiobook Review
By Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius • 3.8/5 stars
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March 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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🎧 Consolation of Philosophy
by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

★★★½ 3.8/5
Reviewed by James Cooper

https://audiobooksoul.com/reviews/consolation-of-philosophy

#audiobook #bookreview #audiobookreview
🎧 Consolation of Philosophy - Audiobook Review
By Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius • 3.8/5 stars
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March 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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'To read Glassgold’s versions is at once to disassemble the collages and to strain to see the disparate pieces as a whole.'

Rachel Hadas: Poems from Boethius’s farewell to life
Poems from Boethius’s farewell to life
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c.480–524 CE), statesman, philosopher and scholar whose aim was to translate the entire works of Plato and Aristotle
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February 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM