Great is the necessity of righteousness laid upon you if ye will not hide it from yourselves, seeing that all your actions are done before the eyes of a Judge who seeth all things.' FOOTNOTES: [S] Plato expressly states the opposite in the 'Timaeus' (28B), though possibly there the account of the beginning of the world in time is to be understood figuratively, not literally.

See Jowett, vol.iii., pp.
448, 449 (3rd edit.).
EPILOGUE.
Within a short time of writing 'The Consolation of Philosophy,' Boethius died by a cruel death.

As to the manner of his death there is some uncertainty.

According to one account, he was cut down by the swords of the soldiers before the very judgment-seat of Theodoric; according to another, a cord was first fastened round his forehead, and tightened till 'his eyes started'; he was then killed with a club.
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