2
'No trivial game is here; the strife Is waged for Turnus' own dear life.' Conington. See Virgil, Æneid,' xii. 764, 745: cf. 'Iliad,' xxii. 159-162.
3
Parmenides. Boethius seems to forget for the moment that Philosophy is speaking.
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1
I.e., the necessity of the truth of the statement from the fact.
2
Plato expressly states the opposite in the 'Timæus' (28B), though possibly there the account of the beginning of the world in time is to be understood figuratively, not literally. See Jowett, vol. iii., pp. 448, 449 (3rd edit.).