Sed hoc est, quod recolentem me vehementius coquit. Nam in omni adversitate fortunæ infelicissimum genus est infortunii, fuisse felicem.[10]
(Boethius, lib. ii. pr. 4.)
X. VULTURES TEAR THE STOMACH OF TITYUS IN HELL.
————Syciphus in Helle,
Whos stomak fowles tyren everemo,
That hyghten volturis.
(Troylus and Cryseyde, book i. st. 113, p. 140.)
Þe fowel þat hyȝt voltor þat etiþ þe stomak or þe giser of ticius.
(Chaucer’s Boethius, [p. 107].)