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The Consolation of Philosophy

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2018
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See Virgil, Æneid,' xii. 764, 745: cf. 'Iliad,' xxii. 159-162.

13

To frighten away the monster swallowing the moon. The superstition was once common. See Tylor's 'Primitive Culture,' pp. 296-302.

14

Parmenides. Boethius seems to forget for the moment that Philosophy is speaking.

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This is not, of course, literally true, though the Tigris and Euphrates rise in the same mountain district.

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I.e., the necessity of the truth of the statement from the fact.

17

Compare Plato, 'Meno,' 80; Jowett, vol. ii., pp. 39, 40.

18

A criticism of the doctrine of the mind as a blank sheet of paper on which experience writes, as held by the Stoics in anticipation of Locke. See Zeller, 'Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics,' Reichel's translation, p. 76.

19

Plato expressly states the opposite in the 'Timæus' (28B), though possibly there the account of the beginning of the world in time is to be understood figuratively, not literally. See Jowett, vol. iii., pp. 448, 449 (3rd edit.).

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