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 De Beneficiis
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Beneficiis.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Seneca.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23794-2955-3003): Seneca + work cue 'De benefic': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Beneficiis'; argumentative position unmarked in window