I think it unnecessary to speak of the forged letters through which I am accused of 'hoping for the freedom of Rome.' Their falsity would have been apparent if I had been free to question the evidence of the informers themselves, for their confessions have much force in all such business.

However, I leave it to your judgment and that of philosophers to decide how the justice of this may be; but I have committed to writing for history the true course of events, that posterity may not be ignorant thereof. I think it unnecessary to speak of the forged letters through which I am accused of ‘hoping for the freedom of Rome.’ Their falsity would have been apparent if I had been free to question the evidence of the informers themselves, for their confessions have much force in all such business.

– Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

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