Plato’s account of how the world was made: a divine craftsman shaping the cosmos after an eternal pattern, the elements built from triangles, the body and its diseases. It opens with the story of Atlantis. For centuries it was the only Plato the Latin West could read, in Calcidius’s partial translation.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with Timaeus that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Benjamin Jowett, 1871. Source: Gutenberg 1572.
The text here is Benjamin Jowett’s translation, 1871, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1572, set unaltered. His introduction and analysis are not printed.
Divided at the three places the dialogue has long been cut (Stephanus 27c, 47e and 69a). Jowett prints no Stephanus numbers, so each cut is made at the sentence that opens the part.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.