If you are trying to stop her wheel from turning, 1 you are of all men the most obtuse. For
As note 1 points out, Boethius was not the first to come up with the image of the wheel of fortune. Many writers in the middle ages, like Dante Chaucer as well as painters used this image. Of course, in our own time the wheel of fortune is a television game show that does not mention the fact that Boethius was an important person who popularized the metaphor.

