iii.) and Fabricius (Bibliot Latin.) may be usefully consulted.

The date of his birth may be placed about the year 470, and his death in 524, in a premature old age, (Consol.Phil.Metrica.i.p.

5.)] [Footnote 90: For the age and value of this Ms., now in the Medicean library at Florence, see the Cenotaphia Pisana (p.

430-447) of Cardinal Noris.] [Footnote 91: The Athenian studies of Boethius are doubtful, (Baronius, A.D.510, No.

3, from a spurious tract, De Disciplina Scholarum,) and the term of eighteen years is doubtless too long: but the simple fact of a visit to Athens is justified by much internal evidence, (Brucker, Hist.Crit.Philosoph.tom.iii.