 Even though in this way, by relegating them to a “greater investigation”, Porphyry left these questions unanswered, they certainly proved to be irresistible for his medieval Latin commentators, beginning with Boethius, who produced not just one, but two commentaries on Porphyry’s text; the first based on Marius Victorinus’s (fl. 4th c.) translation, and the second on his  own.[6]