Dialogue

 1 Criti|     been made to find the great island of Atlantis, as to discover
 2 Criti|         the other was the great island of Atlantis. Critias proposes
 3 Criti|     obtained as his portion the island of Atlantis, and there he
 4 Criti|        and in the centre of the island there was a very fair and
 5 Criti|      the place. To the interior island he conveyed under the earth
 6 Criti|         made king of the centre island, while to his twin brother,
 7 Criti|     chiefs over the rest of the island. And their kingdom extended
 8 Criti|        they built in the centre island. This ancient palace was
 9 Criti|      the zones of land from the island to the sea. The zones of
10 Criti|         which ran all round the island. The guards were distributed
11 Criti|       depth of the ditch in the Island of Atlantis was not to be
12 Criti|      water-supply of the centre island: (10) the mention of the
13 Criti|        accepted the tale of the Island of Atlantis. In modern times
14 Criti|       of reflection, regard the Island of Atlantis as the anticipation
15 Criti| anticipation of a still greater island—the Continent of America. ‘
16 Criti|       barbaric greatness of the island of Atlantis, Plato probably
17 Criti|        of Greek notions. In the island of Atlantis, Plato is describing
18 Criti|         as I was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya
19 Criti|       receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children
20 Criti|   settled them in a part of the island, which I will describe.
21 Criti|         the centre of the whole island, there was a plain which
22 Criti|       also in the centre of the island at a distance of about fifty
23 Criti|         no man could get to the island, for ships and voyages were
24 Criti|     arrangements for the centre island, bringing up two springs
25 Criti|      children; and dividing the island of Atlantis into ten portions,
26 Criti|         and after him the whole island and the ocean were called
27 Criti|        lot the extremity of the island towards the pillars of Heracles,
28 Criti|      foreign countries, and the island itself provided most of
29 Criti|      earth in many parts of the island, being more precious in
30 Criti|      number of elephants in the island; for as there was provision
31 Criti|    eating—all these that sacred island which then beheld the light
32 Criti|    which surrounded the central island was a stadium only in width.
33 Criti|      stadium only in width. The island in which the palace was
34 Criti|      from underneath the centre island, and from underneath the
35 Criti|         to extend all round the island, for horses to race in.
36 Criti|        stadia. This part of the island looked towards the south,
37 Criti|   situated in the middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon,
38 Criti|         god settled in the lost island of Atlantis; and this he