[219] 'Nec aliqua probatur appellatione suspensa.'
[220] 'Et venis colludentibus illigata naturalem faciem laudabiliter mentiantur.'
[221] 'Neotherium fratrem suum, affectum germanitatis oblitum, bona parvuli hostili furore lacerasse.'
[222] 'Nihil enim in tali honore temeraria cogitatione praesumendum est, ubi si proposito creditur, etiam tacitus ab excessibus excusatur. Manifesta proinde crimina in talibus vix capiunt fidem. Quidquid autem ex invidia dicitur, veritas non putatur.'
[223] If the MSS. are correctly represented in the printed editions, the name of the author of the Consolation of Philosophy was spelt Boetius in the Variae. There can be little doubt however that Boethius is the more correct form, and this is the form given us in the Anecdoton Holderi.
[224] Why are these called 'Domestici patres equitum et peditum?'
[225] Perhaps the name really was Eugenes, -etis. See Var. [viii. 19], and Ennodii, Epist. iv. 26.
[226] 'Pio principi sub quodam sacerdotio serviatur.' Cf. Claudian, 'Nunquam libertas gratior exstat quam sub rege pio.'
[227] 'Ut quantum eos minus vendidisse constiterit, de reliquis primae indictionis habita moderatione detrahatis.'
[228] 'Durissimae mansiones.'