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 | The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) (Updated Edition) by Ancius Boethius, Victor Watts (Translator), Victor Ernest Watts, Vic Boethius/ Watts Paperback, 155 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-14-044780-6 / 0140447806 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044780-4 / 9780140447804 ‘Why else does slippery Fortune change So much, and punishment more fit For crime oppress the innocent?’ Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy is a conversation between the ailing prisoner and his ‘nurse’ Philosophy, whose instruction r | |