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Often appears with: sacrilege accusations · public reputation · public finance and debt · lying informers · justice as a virtue · crime and punishment
Usually: dialogue (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1)
Boethius refutes allegations of sacrilege against himself, argues that public opinion judges by outcomes rather than merit, predicts more informers and injustice, and begins a lament about the ruin of the innocent.
and undefended, at a distance of near five hundred miles away.[C] Oh, my judges, well do ye deserve that no one should hereafter be convicted of a fault like mine! 'Yet even my very accusers saw how honourable was the charge they brought against me, and, in order to overlay it with some shadow of guilt, they falsely asserted that in the pursuit of my ambition I had stained my conscience with sacrilegious acts. And y…