[278] His arithmetic is dedicated to Symmachus: "Domino suo patricio Symmacho Boetius." [Friedlein ed., p. 3.]
[279] It was while here that he wrote De consolatione philosophiae.
[280] It is sometimes given as 525.
[281] There was a medieval tradition that he was executed because of a work on the Trinity.
[282] Hence the Divus in his name.
[283] Thus Dante, speaking of his burial place in the monastery of St. Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, at Pavia, says:
"The saintly soul, that shows
The world's deceitfulness, to all who hear him,
Is, with the sight of all the good that is,
Blest there. The limbs, whence it was driven, lie