Boethius (consul 522)

Flavius Boethius (fl. 522-526) was a Roman politician during the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy.

Son of the philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius^[1] and of Rusticiana (his aunts were Galla and Proba) he was the brother of Symmachus, with whom he shared the consulate,^[2] chosen by the Ostrogothic court.

His father fell into disgrace with the Ostrogothic ruler and had his own property confiscated; at the death of king Theodoric the Great (526), these properties were given back to Boethius and Symmachus.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Boethius does not mention the name of his sons in his Consolatio Philosophiae, but in II.3.8, 4.7 he mentions their joint consulate.
2. ^ AE 1961, 284
3. ^ Procopius of Caesarea, Bellum Gothicum, I.2.5.

Bibliography

• CIL IX, 2074 CIL X, 4496
• Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, "Fl. Boethius 3", volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN ISBN 0521201594, p. 232.