Roman consul

The Trinity is One God, Not Three Gods.

A treatise by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Most Honourable of the Illustrious Order of Ex-Consuls, Patrician, to his father-in-law, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Most Honourable of the Illustrious Order of Ex-Consuls, Patrician.

I have long pondered this problem with such mind as I have and all the light that God has lent me.

Now, having set it forth in logical order and cast it into literary form, I venture to submit it to your judgment, for which I care as much as for the results of my own research.

End of Treatise 4 Treatise 5 of the Theological Tractates by Boethius, translated by H. F. Stewart and E. K. Rand.

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A Treatise Against Eutyches and Nestorius A Treatise Against Eutyches and Nestorius by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Most Honourable, of the Illustrious Order of Ex-Consuls, Patrician To his saintly master and reverend father, John the Deacon, his son Boethius I have been long and anxiously waiting for you to discuss with me the problem which was raised at the meeting, but since your duties have prevented your coming and I shall be for some time involved in my business engagements I am setting down in writing what I had been keeping to say by word of mouth.

You no doubt remember how when the letter was read in the assembly it was asserted that the Eutycheans confess that Christ is formed from two natures, but does not consist of them, whereas Catholics admit both propositions, for among followers of the true faith he is equally believed to be of two natures and in two natures.

caesar i bring thee word menecrates and menas famous pirates make the sea serve them which they ear and wound with keels of every kind many hot inroads they make in italy the border's maritime lack blood to think on't and flush youth revolt no vessel can peep forth but tis as soon taken as seen For Pompey's name strikes more Than could his war resisted.

Antony, leave thy lascivious wassails! When thou once wast beaten from Medina, Where thou slewest Hirtius and Pansa, Consuls at thy heel did famine follow, Whom thou fought'st against, though daintily brought up, With patience more than savages could suffer.

Thou didst drink the stale of horses, and the gilded puddle which beasts would cough at.

Thy palate then did deign the roughest berry on the rudest hedge.

For there is no one who believes that in a dishonest education and in a brutish mind there can exist some virtue which in some part may be praiseworthy.

Nor does it appear to me superfluous, rather I believe it necessary, in order for you to understand better the importance of this selection, to tell you the method that the Roman consuls at the start of their magistracy observed in selecting the Roman legions.

In which diletto, because those who had to be selected were to be a mixture of new and veteran men because of the continuing wars, they proceeded from experience with regard to the old men and from conjecture with regard to the new.

And this ought to be noted, that these diletti are made either for immediate training and use or for future employment.

Which thing, while Rome was free, was instituted not in the army but within the city; and as the military exercises where the young men were trained were in the city, there resulted that those then chosen to go to war, being accustomed in the method of mock warfare, could easily adapt themselves to real war.

But afterwards when these emperors discontinued these exercises, it was necessary to employ the methods I have described to you.

Arriving, therefore, at the methods of the Roman selection I say that as soon as the Roman Consuls, on whom it was imposed the carrying on of the war, had assumed the magistracy, in wanting to organize their armies [as it was the custom that each of them had two legions of Roman men, and were the nerve center of their armies] created twenty-four military tribunes [proposing six for each legion], who filled that office which today is done by those whom we call constables.

After they had assembled all the Roman men adapted carrying arms, and placed the tribunes of each legion apart from each of the others: afterwards by lot they drew the tribes, from which the first selection was to be made, and of that tribe they selected four of the best men: from whom one was selected by the tribunes of the first legion, and of the other three one was selected by the tribunes of the second legion, and of the other two one was selected by the tribunes of the third, and the last belonged to the fourth legion.

Decrees are forced from senate and from plebs.

Consul and tribune break the laws alike.

Bought are the fasces, and the people sell For gain their favor.

Bribery's fatal curse Corrupts the annual contests of the field.

Meantime the aged fathers o'er their fates In anguish grieved, detesting life prolonged, That brought with it another civil war.

And thus spake one to justify his fears: "No other deeds the Fates laid up in store When Marius, victor over Teuton hosts, Afric's high conqueror, cast out from Rome, Lay hid in marshy ooze at thy behest, O Fortune! by the yielding soil concealed And waving rushes; but ere long the chains Of prison wore his weak and aged frame In lengthened squalor.

Thus he paid for crime His punishment beforehand, doomed to die Consul in triumph over wasted Rome.

Death oft refused him, and the very foe, In act to murder, shuddered in the stroke And dropped the weapon from his nerveless hand; For through the prison gloom a flame of light He saw, the deities of crime abhorred, The Marius to come.

A five-man commission was eventually dispatched to Asia in 132 to presumably investigate the matter, but we aren't told of its intent or accomplishments.

Clearly it didn't achieve much, since the Senate was compelled to assign an army to the incoming Consul and Pontifex Maximus of 131, Publius Licinius Crassus, who sailed with an army to bring the rebel king to heel.

Though he was a man of considerable intelligence and held a sterling reputation in Rome, such qualities did not matter as much to the king's army.

In a battle near Luccae, the consul was surrounded by Aristonicus' Thracian auxiliaries and slain, his head presented to the Sun King as proof of his death while his body was buried in Smyrna.

caesar i bring thee word menecrates and menas famous pirates make the sea serve them which they ear and wound with keels of every kind many hot inroads they make in italy the border's maritime lack blood to think on't and flush youth revolt no vessel can peep forth but tis as soon taken as seen For Pompey's name strikes more Than could his war resisted.

Antony, leave thy lascivious wassails! When thou once wast beaten from Medina, Where thou slewest Hirtius and Pansa, Consuls at thy heel did famine follow, Whom thou fought'st against, though daintily brought up, With patience more than savages could suffer.

Thou didst drink the stale of horses, and the gilded puddle which beasts would cough at.

Thy palate then did deign the roughest berry on the rudest hedge.