Chalcidius was a fourth century Christian neo-Platonist. At the request of Bishop Hosius of Córdoba he produced one of the earliest Latin versions that we have of part of Plato’s Timaeus, sections 17a-53c, based on long lost Greek manuscripts. Chalcidius also gave us a commentary on the text. One researcher claims that Chalcidius was possibly Saint Augustine(a).
The Digby23 codex contains a 13th century copy of Chalcidius’ Latin translation of Timaeus in Oxford’s Bodleian Library that can now be read online(d)(e).
The Latin translation of Timaeus 17- 27 by Chalcidius together with Bury’s English translation can be accessed on the Atlantis Rising website(c).
We had to wait until the 15th century for a full translation, of all the dialogues, also in Latin, to be produced by Marsilio Ficino.
(a) www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopic-9108-40.html
(c)
http://forums.atlantisrising.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001723;p=0
(e) http://timaeus.baylor.edu/
