 Nicolaus of Damascus. Abu ʿAli ibn Zurʿa, a Christian philosopher of the circle of Yahya ibn ʿAdi, translated into Arabic (in all likelihood from the Syriac version made in the previous century by Hunayn ibn  Ishaq[108])  the Compendium of Aristotle’s  Philosophy.[109]  The same Abu ʿAli ibn Zurʿa began to translate Nicolaus’ compendium of the De  Animalibus.[110]