 The central texts for commentary in the Greek, Latin, Jewish branches, and among Arabic philosophers up to the twelfth century were Aristotle’s. The Byzantine philosophers used them in the original, Latin and Arabic philosophers in translation, and the Hebrew-writing Jewish philosophers usually indirectly, via epitomes and paraphrase commentaries translated from Arabic. No other ancient philosopher’s texts received anything remotely near to this level of attention, although various works of Boethius received multiple commentaries in the Latin  tradition;[3]  commentary on Plato was  sporadic.[4]  But the many commentaries on the Bible and on the Quran sometimes included substantial philosophical discussions.