This work compares being "in a slough of foul and filthy lusts" to being "kept down by the lusts of an unclean swine" in showing that unrighteousness degrades humanity. A Latin pun along the lines of "The sole power which can see all is justly to be called the solar" is used to illustrate the power of God in a section that ends asking "Why do ye sluggards turn your backs? When the earth is overcome, the stars are yours." One figure claims the siren Fortune has "preserved her own constancy by her very change." It opens with the title figure angrily asking "Who has suffe
This work compares being "in a slough of foul and filthy lusts" to being "kept down by the lusts of an unclean swine" in showing that unrighteousness degrades humanity. A Latin pun along the lines of "The sole power which can see all is justly to be called the solar" is used to illustrate the power of God in a section that ends asking "Why do ye sluggards turn your backs? When the earth is overcome, the stars are yours." One figure claims the siren Fortune has "preserved her own constancy by her very change." It opens with the title figure angrily asking "Who has suffered these seducing mummers to approach this sick man?" when she sees the Muse of poetry encouraging the narrator to write gloomy songs. The narrator bewails how he saved Paulinus and Albinus and opened himself to the persecutions of Conigastus and Trigulla, favorites of Theodoric. Written during its author's imprisonment in 524, for 10 points, name this work of Boethius.
This work compares being "in a slough of foul and filthy lusts" to being "kept down by the lusts of an unclean swine" in showing that unrighteousness degrades humanity.
{Consolation} of {Philosophy} or {Consolatio Philosophiae}