 Boethius resolves the puzzle of the rod and its parts by noting that while it is true that each portion of bronze is bronze, it is not true that a portion of the original quantity of bronze is that original quantity of bronze (Boethius On Division 880a) Boethius’ solution is often repeated ((ps?)Abelard De divisionibus 169.33–36; Albertus Magnus In de Div. tract. 2, ch. 5 (Loe ed., 35); and Radulphus Brito In de Top. II, q. 9 [1978, 45]; cf. Aquinas Summa Theologiae I, q. 3, art. 7). 