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[Greek: homôs de kai en toutois dialampei to kalon, epeidan pherê tis eukolôs pollas kai megalas atychias, mê di analgêsian, alla gennadas ôn kai megalopsychos.] Aristotle's 'Ethics,' I., xi. 12. [Illustration: Diptych representing Narius Manlius Boethius, father of Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. The inscription in full would run thus:-- NARIVS MANLIVS BOETHIVS VIR CLARISSIMVS ET INLVSTRIS EXPRAEFECTVS PRAETORIO PRAEFECTVS VRBIS ET COMES CONSVL ORDINARIVS ET PARTICIVS (_For description vid. Preface, p. vi_)] THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY OF BOETHIUS. Translated into English Prose and Verse by H.R. JAMES, M.A., CH. CH. OXFORD. Quantumlibet igitur sæviant mali, sapienti tamen corona non decidet, non arescet. Melioribus animum conformaveris, nihil opus est judice præmium deferente, tu te ipse excellentioribus addidisti; studium ad pejora deflexeris,…