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Benjamin Bagby helped Sam Barrett of Cambridge reconstruct the melodies of the songs that separate chapters of this text. An “invocation” from this text tells God, “Thou dost make the soul as a third between mind and material bodies: to these the soul gives life and movement,” reflecting the influence of the Timaeus. A character in this text argues that since God exists at all times, his foreknowledge does not impose a “binding necessity.” (15[2])This text describes a woman (15[1])who carries (*) books in one hand and a scepter in the other while wearing a tattered dress made of the finest thread, on which an embroidered ladder connects the letters pi (10[1])and theta. This text’s title character explains why it seems that the wicked prosper and the good suffer to comfort its narrator, who was imprisoned by Theodoric. For 10 points, name this final work by Boethius. ■END■

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