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* '''Tully''' — [[Cicero|Marcus Tullius Cicero]]: famed Roman statesman and orator who was also responsible for bringing significant swathes of Greek philosophy to Latin-speaking audiences, though generally through summation and commentary in his own work rather than by translation.

* '''Dionysius''' — [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]]: Aquinas refers to the works of Dionysius, whom scholars of the time thought to be the person mentioned in Acts 17:34 (a disciple of [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]). However, they were most likely written in Syria during the 6th century by a writer who attributed his book to Dionysius (hence the addition of the prefix "pseudo-" to the name "Dionysius" in most modern references to these works).

* '''[[Al-Ghazali|Al-Ghazel]]''' —Aquinas also cites the [[Kalam|Islamic theologian]] al-Ghazali (Algazel).

* '''Rabbi Moses''' — Rabbi Moses [[Maimonides]]: a [[Jew]]ish [[rabbi]]nical scholar, a near-contemporary of Aquinas (died 1204, before Aquinas). The scholastics derived many insights from his work, as he also employed the [[scholastic method]].