He was dragged in chains from Rome to the palace of Ravenna; and the suspicions of Theodoric could only be appeased by the blood of an innocent and aged senator.

[101] [Footnote 98: He was executed in Agro Calventiano, (Calvenzano, between Marignano and Pavia,) Anonym.Vales.p.723, by order of Eusebius, count of Ticinum or Pavia.

This place of confinement is styled the baptistery, an edifice and name peculiar to cathedrals.

It is claimed by the perpetual tradition of the church of Pavia.

The tower of Boethius subsisted till the year 1584, and the draught is yet preserved, (Tiraboschi, tom.iii.p.47, 48.)] [Footnote 99: See the Biographia Britannica, Alfred, tom.i.p.80, 2d edition.