9. One time when he was coming from the fields to the house certain
strangers met him; and when he had asked them whence they had come,
they said, "From the house of Boetius the wright." And when he had
again asked them how they had been refreshed there, they answered,
"Not only got we no food, but the woman of the house heaped insults
and abuse upon us." But he, fired with the flames of charity, went to
his father's house, and cast whatsoever of food he found there into
the mud, thinking that what was not offered to Christ, and that in
which the pleasure of the devil was wrought, was corrupt and unclean
and should not be eaten of any.