Dialogue

 1 Criti|          whom we know and not of gods whom we do not know. Socrates
 2 Criti|      scene.~In the beginning the gods agreed to divide the earth
 3 Criti|  obedient to the laws and to the gods, and practised gentleness
 4 Criti|      them, held a council of the gods, and when he had called
 5 Criti|        incurred the anger of the gods. Their Oriental wealth,
 6 Criti| concerning the generation of the gods, I pray him to give me knowledge,
 7 Criti|        seem to speak well of the gods to men is far easier than
 8 Criti|   ignorant we are concerning the gods. But I should like to make
 9 Criti|  encouragements. But besides the gods and goddesses whom you have
10 Criti|          In the days of old, the gods had the whole earth distributed
11 Criti|         rightly suppose that the gods did not know what was proper
12 Criti|         creatures. Now different gods had their allotments in
13 Criti|         of the allotments of the gods, that they distributed the
14 Criti|      built and dedicated to many gods; also gardens and places
15 Criti|          power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to
16 Criti|       improve, collected all the gods into their most holy habitation,