[1] None of his work has been preserved and the complete collection of quotings and paraphrases appeared first in 2020.
Strabo, who mentions him and his brother Diodotus among the celebrated persons of Sidon, speaks of him at the same time as his own teacher (or fellow pupil) in Peripatetic philosophy.
Ammonius quotes also an opinion of Boethus concerning the study of the works of Aristotle, viz.
According to Giovanni Reale, in The Schools of the Imperial Age,[5] Boethus believed that ‘substance’ was ‘matter’ – that it was the composite of being, and not the individual form of being.
Similarly, in ethics, Boethus declared that “the original goal (the proton oikeion) towards which we tend is ourselves in relation to ourselves.