Index

• Aaron, 65
• Abel, 61
• Abraham, 63, 105
• abstraction, 7 n., 44 n.
• Academic studies, 135
• Achaemenian rocks, 389
• Achelous, 381
• Achilles, statue of, 85
• Adam, 59 ff., 125 ff.
• ἀειδές, τὸ, 10 n.
• Aemilius Paulus, 183
• Aeolus, 140 n.
• aequivocus, 96 n.; aequivocatio, 118
• aeternitas, 20, 21, 22 n., 422
• Africa, 337, 381 (Libyan)
• Agamemnon, 380
• age, the former, 207
• Agrippina, 214 n.
• Albinus, 149, 155
• Alcibiades, 261
• Alexander of Aphrodisias, 10 n.
• allegorical method, 59, 104 n.
• Ammonius, 153 n., 410 n.
• Anaxagoras, 143
• Anaxarchus, 210 n.
• angels, 57 ff., 71, 361
• Anicius, son of Boethius, xi n., 193
• Antaeus, 381
• Antoninus Caracalla, 251-
• Apuleius, 22 n.
• Arcturus, 161, 355
• Arians, 7; Arius, 55
• Aristotle, xi (cp. xiii), 10 n., 11 n., 40 n., 100 n., 261; on nature, 81; Physics, 387
• Arius, 55; Arians, 7
• Atrides, 380
• Augustine, St., 5, 18 n., 22 n., 62 n.
• Auster, 170, 198
• Bacchus, 167, 206 (Bacchica)
• baptism, 67
• Basil, informer, 151
• being, 11, 41, 45, 47, 272 n.
• Boethius, life, xi; the first “scholastic,” xii; an independent philosopher, xii; his philosophic ambition, xiv; his achievement, xv; a Christian, xii–xv; perhaps a martyr, xii; son–in–law of Symmachus, xi, 3, 191; his wife, xi, 191; his sons, xi, 193; early training, 135; early poetry, 131; premature old age, 131; his learning, xi–xii, 135 ff., 145 ff.; library, 163; his lofty position, 181 ff.; principles,