The Republic returns to Europe — in Arabic, then Hebrew

Averroes writes a commentary on the Republic because no Arabic Politics exists; Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles translates that commentary into Hebrew in 1320; Latin versions follow from the Hebrew. The Greek text itself does not reach Latin Europe until the fifteenth century.

The same channel shape as ☉. A Greek book comes home through Arabic and Hebrew hands. Anyone inclined to treat Plato as native Western property should be made to name the two translators first.