The contemporaries of Boetius regarded him as a man of profound learning.
But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.
He wore an air of authority yet never lacked address, or "assumed anything to himself above his contemporaries."
His mathematical discoveries were extended and over shadowed by his contemporaries.
The judgment of posterity has not repeated the flattering verdict of his contemporaries; but he remains the model of a great king in all that concerns the externals of kingship.
