  A contemporary of Pachymeres was Sophonias, a Constantinopolitan monk and later Catholic convert, whose hybrid paraphrase of Aristotle’s De anima was mentioned in section 1.2. On stylistic grounds the anonymously transmitted paraphrases of the Categories, the Prior Analytics, the Sophistici elenchi, and the Parva naturalia edited in CAG 23 and 5 may also be attributed to Sophonias. Even though these works are in themselves of limited philosophical interest, it has been shown that Sophonias draws on John Philoponus’ lost commentary on book 3 of the De anima (Van Riet 1965).