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 Officiis
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Officiis.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early treatment of the cardinal virtues in the Sentences commentary draws on Cicero's De Officiis.