# Hisdosus

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'''Hisdosus''' (fl. c. 1100), also known as '''Hisdosus Scholasticus''', was a writer and scholar who lived in the early 12th century.<ref>Terence Irwin, (1995), ''Classical philosophy: collected papers'', p. 206. Taylor & Francis</ref> Nothing is known about his life. His first name is unknown, but he states that "I call myself Hisdosus, taken from the name of my father."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jeauneau|first=Édouard|title=Rethinking the School of Chartres|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=120|year=2009|isbn=978-1442600072}}</ref>

== History ==
A [Latin](/source/Latin_language) commentary by him on [Calcidius](/source/Calcidius)' translation of [Plato](/source/Plato)'s ''[Timaeus](/source/Timaeus_(dialogue))'' survives in manuscript.<ref>''Codex Parisinus Latinus'' 8624</ref> He comments on the passage in the ''Timaeus'' (34b&ndash;36d) that deals with the [World Soul](/source/Anima_mundi).<ref name="j76">{{Cite book|last=Jeauneau|first=Édouard|title=Rethinking the School of Chartres|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=76|year=2009|isbn=978-1442600072}}</ref> The commentary depends on the glosses by the French scholastic philosopher [William of Conches](/source/William_of_Conches) on the ''Timaeus'', and it has been supposed that he may have been a pupil of William of Conches.<ref name="j76"/> 

Hisdosus' commentary is the only source (albeit in Latin paraphrase) for [Heraclitus](/source/Heraclitus)' comparison of the soul to a spider and the body to the spider's web ([DK](/source/Diels-Kranz) 22B 67a).<ref>[Charles H. Kahn](/source/Charles_H._Kahn), (1981), ''The art and thought of Heraclitus'', p. 289. Cambridge University Press.</ref>

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