A Note on the Translation

The present translation of ‘THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY’ is the work of Mr. W. V. COOPER, B.A., King’s College, Cambridge, who has thus carried on the tradition of English renderings of Boethius’s famous work, the list of translators beginning with the illustrious name of Alfred the Great. The recent Millenary, celebrated at Winchester, has perhaps justified the issue of this first of twentieth-century versions. The Frontispiece, taken from an Elzevir Sallust printed in 1634, has been chosen by way of illustrating both the fortune of the author and his famous idea of the changeableness of Fortune’s Wheel.

I. G. December 19, 1901.