Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and In Topica Ciceronis (Boethius)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to In Topica Ciceronis (Boethius).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Boethius.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-22337-1575-1591): 'secundum Boetium, ex Comm. super Topica Cic., lib. VI': Boethius's commentary on Cicero's Topics, explicit locator; Latin original read directly