 Fragments of the work survive , having been quoted by Lactantius , and Jerome makes note of the work in a consolatory letter to Heliodorus of Altino . A popular piece of writing until its loss , the Consolatio is widely accepted as the distinct work that transmitted the earlier consolatio literary tradition to the Romans of the late Republic . In 1583 , Italian scholar Carlo Sigonio claimed to have discovered a non @-@ fragmentary version of the Consolatio , although most scholars now agree that this work was either a fraud or a hoax , with modern stylometric methods seeming to back this up . 
