Classical · English
The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius (AD 477–524), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Prefaceprose
- 02Introduction, § 1. Wessex at Peace. Alfred’s Reforms.prose
- 03§ 2. His Zeal for Learning.prose
- 04§ 3. The De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius.prose
- 05§ 4. Boethius and his Fate.prose
- 06§ 5. Alfred’s Method of Translation.prose
- 07§ 6. Manuscripts of the Old English Boethius.prose
- 08§ 7. The Two Versions of the Lays of Boethius.prose
- 09§ 8. A list of Alfred’s notable comments and additions may be here given:prose
- 10§ 9. Later English Versions of the ‘Consolations.’prose
- 11Boethius, Book iii, metr. 2.prose
- 12Book iv, prose 2. (1)prose
- 13Book iv, prose 2, Book iii, metr. 2. (1)prose
- 14Book iv, prose 2. (3)prose
- 15Book i, metr. 1, (5)prose
- 16Book iii, metr. 2, Book iv, prose 2. (4)prose
- 17Book iii, metr. 2, Book iv, prose 2. (5)prose
- 18Book iv, prose 2. (7)prose
- 19Book iii, metr. 2, Book iv, prose 2. (8)prose
- 20Book iii, metr. 2. (6)prose
- 21Book I Chapters I-VI, Book II. Chapters VII-XXIprose
- 22Book III. Chapters XXII-XXXVprose
- 23Book IV. Chapters XXXVI-XLprose
- 24Book V. Chapters XL to End, Proemprose
- 25Iprose
- 26IIprose
- 27IIIprose
- 28IVprose
- 29Vprose
- 30VIprose
- 31VIIprose
- 32VIIIprose
- 33IX, Xprose
- 34XIprose
- 35XIIprose
- 36XIIIprose
- 37XIVprose
- 38XVprose
- 39XVIprose
- 40XVIIprose
- 41XVIIIprose
- 42XIXprose
- 43XXprose
- 44XXIprose
- 45XXIIprose
- 46XXIIIprose
- 47XXIVprose
- 48XXVprose
- 49XXVIprose
- 50XXVIIprose
- 51XXVIII, XXIXprose
- 52XXXprose
- 53XXXIprose
- 54XXXIIprose
- 55XXXIIIprose
- 56XXXIVprose
- 57XXXVprose
- 58XXXVIprose
- 59XXXVIIprose
- 60XXXVIIIprose
- 61XXXIXprose
- 62XLprose
- 63XLIprose
- 64XLIIprose