"So I continued to ponder all the questions in my mind, not swallowing what I had heard, but rather chewing the cud of constant meditation."
— Boethius (480-524/5)
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Date
Written not before 512
Metaphor
"So I continued to ponder all the questions in my mind, not swallowing what I had heard, but rather chewing the cud of constant meditation."
Metaphor in Context
So I continued to ponder all the questions in my mind, not swallowing what I had heard, but rather chewing the cud of constant meditation. At last the door opened to my mind's knocking, and the truth which I found in my inquiry disclosed all the fogs of Eutychian error.
(p. 75)
Meditabar igitur dehinc omnes animo quaestiones nec deglutiebam quod acceperam, sed frequentis consilii iteratione ruminabam. Tandem igitur patuere pulsanti animo fores et veritas inventa quaerenti omnes nebulas Eutychiani reclusit erroris
(p. 74)
(p. 75)
Meditabar igitur dehinc omnes animo quaestiones nec deglutiebam quod acceperam, sed frequentis consilii iteratione ruminabam. Tandem igitur patuere pulsanti animo fores et veritas inventa quaerenti omnes nebulas Eutychiani reclusit erroris
(p. 74)
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Provenance
Reading Seth Lerer's Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1985.
Date of Entry
10/20/2003
Date of Review
09/25/2008
