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Then Albinus and Boethius were imprisoned in the baptistery of a church. And the king summoned Eusebius, prefect of the city, to Ticinum, and pronounced sentence on Boethius without giving him a hearing. Presently at the Calventian estate,Apparently named from an otherwise unrecorded CCalventius, modern Calvenzeno. where Boethius was confined,The sentence of death had been changed to exile. he had him put to a wretched death. He was tortured for a long time with a cord bound about his forehead so tightly that his eyes cracked in their sockets, and finally, while under torture, he was beaten to death with a cudgel.
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Then the king, on his return to Ravenna, acted no longer as a friend of God, but as an enemy to His law; forgetful of all His kindness and of the favour which He had shown him, trusting to his own arm, believing, too, that the emperor Justinus stood in great fear of him, he sent and summoned to Ravenna Johannes,The first Roman pope of that name, successor to Hormisdas. who at that time sat upon the apostolic throne, and said to him: Go to the emperor Justinus in Constantinople, and tell him among other things to restoreTo the Arians; see note 1, § 94, p. 569. those who have become reconciled and joined the Catholic Church.
