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Calcidius

LC control no.n 79027140
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingCalcidius
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Variant(s)Chalcidius, active 4th century
Beginning date03
Field of activityPlato. Timaeus
Found inSwitalski, B. W. (Bronislaus Wladislaus). Des Chalcidius Kommentar zu Plato's Timaeus, 1902: title page (Chalcidius) pages 1-2 (Chalcidius, or Calcidius; translator of the first part of Plato's Timaeus; possibly a contemporary of Bishop Hosius of CoĢrdoba, who was present at the Councils of Nicaea and Sardica)
English Wikipedia, viewed November 5, 2021 (Calcidius (or Chalcidius); 4th-century philosopher (and possibly a Christian) who translated the first part of Plato's Timaeus from Greek into Latin around the year 321 and provided with it an extensive commentary. This was likely done for Bishop Hosius of Córdoba. Very little is otherwise known of him)
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