sophonias การใช้
- In his works Sophonias has interwoven the statements of Aristotle with the scholia of Michael of Ephesus.
- The value of the works of Sophonias is that they contain excerpts from the best of the earlier commentators.
- Some later manuscripts of the " Parva Naturalia " commentary ascribe the work to Themistius, but Sophonias'authorship, first proposed by De Somno ".
- Little is known about Sophonias, except that he was probably the monk sent by Michael IX Palaiologos on an abortive mission to arrange a marriage between Michael and a western princess around 1295.