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Born 470? or 475 • Rome? • Italy
Died 524 • Pavia? • Italy
Subjects Of Study Porphyry • Aristotelianism • Trinity • free will • the Good • two natures of Christ • universal

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
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The consul Boethius holding sceptres in his left hand, ivory diptych, Byzantine, 5th–6th century; in the Museo Civico Cristiano, Brescia, Italy
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