The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880 and 950. Boethius's work is prosimetrical, alternating between prose and verse, and one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Old English translation renders the poems as Old English alliterative verse: these verse translations are known as the Metres of Boethius. The translation is attributed in one manuscript to King Alfred (r. 870–899), and this was long accepted, but the attribution is now considered doubtful. Source: Wikipedia (en)