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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Boe'thius (search)
son's minority, replaced his statues and restored to her his confiscated property. (Procop. Goth. 1.2, Anec. 10; Jornand. Reb. Get. 89.) Rusticiana was, however, on the sack of Rome, in A. D. 541, chiefly by her liberality to the besieged, again reduced to beggary, and was only saved by the kindness of Totila from the fury which this liberality, as well as her destruction of Theodoric's statues in revenge for her husband and father, had excited in the Gothic army. (Procop. Goth. 3.20.) In A. D. 722, a tomb was erected to Boethius's memory by Luitprand, king of the Lombards, in the church of S. Pietro Cielo d'Oro, and in A. D. 990, a more magnificent one by Otho III., with an epitaph by pope Sylvester II. (Tiraboschi, vol. iii. lib. 1. c.4.) Other Stories of Boethius' Life With the facts stated above have been mixed up various stories, more or less disputed, which seem to have grown with the growth of his posthumous reputation. 1. Stay at Athens and attendance on the lecture of P