 Translation from Greek into Latin went on almost continuously. Writings by philosophically acute Greek Church Fathers were translated in antiquity; in the fourth century, Calcidius translated part of Plato’s Timaeus, with an extensive commentary.  Boethius  (476–c. 525) translated Aristotle’s logic and, in his commentaries and textbooks, translating, selecting and rethinking, made available in Latin large amounts of the teachings on Aristotelian logic from the Platonic Schools. His Consolation of Philosophy, written as a prosimetric dialogue when Boethius was under sentence of death, was one of the most widely read and translated texts in the Middle Ages: it was not a translation, but transmitted Boethius’s own understanding of late ancient Platonism. Translations of pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor were made in the ninth century  (§2.1,  §2.2), and of John of Damascus (c. 660–c. 750) in the twelfth century. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the rest of Aristotle untranslated by Boethius—his non-logical works and the Posterior Analytics—was put into Latin, sometimes first via Arabic; (Plato’s Phaedo and Meno were also translated, by Henry Aristippus, but they remained almost unknown). The greatest of these translators was William of Moerbeke (1215–1286), who made or produced by version very accurate, extremely literal translations from the Greek of all Aristotle’s works, and texts by the late ancient Platonists Proclus,  Ammonius  and  Simplicius.  In the fifteenth century, there were many more translations from the Greek, such as those of Plato and Plotinus by  Marsilio Ficino  (1433–99).