Boethius

基本解释

The Consolation takes the form of a dialogue, between Boethius and Philosophy.
《哲學的慰藉》採用了一種對話的形式，即波伊提烏和哲學之間的對話。
Boethius’ thoughts and reflections are written in prose, whilst the wisdom of his interlocutor, Philosophy, appears in verse.
波伊提烏的思維和見解用散文的形式來表述，而他的對話者哲學的智慧則出現在詩節儅中。
Boethius, primarily motivated by Plato in his philosophical views, finds that, ‘The substance of God consisteth in nothing else but goodness’.
波伊提烏的哲學觀點主要是受柏拉圖的啓發，他發現“上帝的實質僅存在於美德儅中”。

However, when a succession of his poems turn out to be adaptations or loose translations of Petronius, Sappho, Pliny the Elder and Boethius, you may find yourself hankering after an original voice—even one as extravagant as Whitman's.
ECONOMIST: Audacity and elegy