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BOETHIUS DE DACIA (13th century)
Boethius de Dacia was a Danish philosopher active at
the University of Paris in the 1270s. “Boethius” is a
latinization of the Nordic name “Bo.” Because of a mis-
interpretation of the epithet “de Dacia/Dacus” = “from
Denmark,” some scholars have called him “Boethius of
Sweden.” Nothing is known about Boethius’s life exceptBOETHIUS DE DACIA