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OPILION. Opilio, fl. sixth century A.D., was Cyprian's brother and one of Boethius's accusers. Cassiodorus writes to him for the Emperor Athalaricus, informing him that he has been made one of the counts of the sacred Largesses, or comes sacrarium largitionum (Epistola VIII.16).

Opilion is among Boethius's accusers, Bo I, Prosa 4.114 [Boece: Cyprian: Gaudenicus]

The form is OF, found in Jean de Meun's translation, Li Livres de confort de philosophie, I, Prose 4.60-61.

Cassiodorus, Epistolae Theodoricianae variae, ed. Th. Mommsen, 246-247; V.L. Dedeck-Héry, "Boethius' De consolatione by Jean de Meun." MS 14 (1952): 178.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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