Categoriae decem in the early medieval West, beginning, it would seem, at the court of Charlemagne. Those influenced included Alcuin, particularly in his "De Dialectica", Fridugisus and Johannes Scotus Eriugena. From around the eleventh century the influence of the "Categoriae decem" waned, as translations of the original work of Aristotle gained currency in Western Europe. Categoriae decem The Categoriae decem, also known as the Ten Categories and as the "Paraphrasis Themistiana", was a Latin summary of the "Categories" of Aristotle. It is thought to date to the fourth century. Once and traditionally attributed to St. Augustine, it is now no longer thought
Bible translations into Latin used Latin translations of fragments of the Hebrew Bible. The earliest known translations into Latin consist of a number of piecework translations during the early Church period. Collectively, these versions are known as the "Vetus Latina" and closely follow the Greek Septuagint. The Septuagint was the usual source for these anonymous translators, and they reproduce its variations from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. They were never rendered independently from the Hebrew or Greek; they vary widely in readability and quality, and contain many solecisms in idiom, some by the translators themselves, others from literally translating Greek language idioms into Latin. Earlier