Plato
Timaeus
Translated by Benjamin Jowett, 1871
What this is
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.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.