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  1 Criti|                  a noble lie.’ Observe (1) the innocent declaration
  2 Criti|     water-supply of the centre island: (10) the mention of the old
  3 Criti|                Why, here be truths!’): (3) the extreme minuteness
  4 Criti|                in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason assigned
  5 Criti|        occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that the armed
  6 Criti|                 life of men and women: (6) the particularity with
  7 Criti|                 the great destruction: (7) the happy guess that great
  8 Criti|                been effected by water: (8) the indulgence of the prejudice
  9 Criti|                the ocean in that part: (9) the confession that the
 10 Criti|             about to speak had occurred 9000 years ago. One of the combatants
 11 Criti|               fertile in the world, and abounded in rich plains and pastures.
 12 Criti|            hollows the streams which it absorbed from the heights, providing
 13 Criti|            variety of food to spring up abundantly from the soil. He also begat
 14 Criti|              have been spoken truly and acceptably to him; but if unintentionally
 15 Criti|               most part unhesitatingly, accepted the tale of the Island of
 16 Criti|                 completed, whether from accident, or from advancing age,
 17 Criti|          chariot-horses without a seat, accompanied by a horseman who could
 18 Criti|                the men of those days in accordance with the custom of the time
 19 Criti|             would have seemed perfectly accordant with the character of his
 20 Criti|             know that his character was accounted infamous by Xenophon, and
 21 Criti|             never been any considerable accumulation of the soil coming down
 22 Criti|                 slaying the bull in the accustomed manner, they had burnt its
 23 Criti|             Xenophon, and that the mere acquaintance with him was made a subject
 24 Criti|      generations were wholly devoted to acquiring the means of life...And
 25 Criti|            ruler who commanded them, to act otherwise than according
 26 Criti|                have no reference to the actual facts. The desire to do
 27 Criti|                 work of such extent, in addition to so many others, could
 28 Criti|                Socrates, which you have addressed to him, I must also take
 29 Criti|                 manner they righteously administered their own land and the rest
 30 Criti|              land; also the fruit which admits of cultivation, both the
 31 Criti|         Erysichthon, were preserved and adopted in later times, but the
 32 Criti|        widely-spread tradition. Others, adopting a different vein of reflection,
 33 Criti|                  The roof was of ivory, adorned with gold and silver and
 34 Criti|               temples, but there was no adorning of them with gold and silver,
 35 Criti|               of them they gave as much adornment as was suitable. Of the
 36 Criti|          whether from accident, or from advancing age, or from a sense of
 37 Criti|                 of the story is a great advantage: (2) the manner in which
 38 Criti|                of the first part of the Aeneid is intended by Virgil to
 39 Criti|            There were many special laws affecting the several kings inscribed
 40 Criti|             before that of Deucalion is affirmed to have been the great destruction: (
 41 Criti|               of the mountains now only afford sustenance to bees, not
 42 Criti|              fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks and meats and ointments,
 43 Criti|             accident, or from advancing age, or from a sense of the
 44 Criti|               In the beginning the gods agreed to divide the earth by lot
 45 Criti|             speak next according to our agreement. (Tim.)~CRITIAS: And I,
 46 Criti|           filled with all iniquity. The all-seeing Zeus, wanting to punish
 47 Criti|                 in width, and in length allowed to extend all round the
 48 Criti|         liberator of Greece, is also an allusion to the later history. Hence
 49      | along
 50 Criti|                 dwelt all round, making alternate zones of sea and land larger
 51 Criti|               may appear to be somewhat ambitious and discourteous, I must
 52 Criti|       generations; and they had such an amount of wealth as was never before
 53 Criti|             pair of twins he called one Ampheres, and the other Evaemon.
 54 Criti|              which furnish pleasure and amusement, and are fruits which spoil
 55 Criti|                        INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS~The Critias is a fragment
 56 Criti|           matters, we do not examine or analyze the painting; all that is
 57 Criti|             reason why the names of the ancients have been preserved to us
 58 Criti|       degenerate, and soon incurred the anger of the gods. Their Oriental
 59 Criti|                  friend Critias, I will announce to you the judgment of the
 60 Criti|               reaped the benefit of the annual rainfall, not as now losing
 61 Criti|                  and thither the people annually brought the fruits of the
 62 Criti|                palaces, in like manner, answered to the greatness of the
 63 Criti|                 grants his request, and anticipating that Hermocrates will make
 64 Criti|                like a man. First invoke Apollo and the Muses, and then
 65 Criti|               having a strange barbaric appearance. All the outside of the
 66 Criti|               more trusted of whom were appointed to keep watch in the lesser
 67 Criti|                They all of them by just apportionment obtained what they wanted,
 68 Criti|                considering that to form approved likenesses of human things
 69 Criti|             part of the globe, America, Arabia Felix, Ceylon, Palestine,
 70 Criti|              led to the sea. The entire area was densely crowded with
 71 Criti|             more difficult; and I shall argue that to seem to speak well
 72 Criti|              begin to have leisure (Cp. Arist. Metaphys.), and when they
 73 Criti|            image of the goddess in full armour, to be a testimony that
 74 Criti|            those days to support a vast army, raised from the surrounding
 75 Criti|            difficulty in making special arrangements for the centre island, bringing
 76 Criti|                the myriads and barbaric array of the Atlantic hosts. The
 77 Criti|               am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and, like a weary
 78 Criti|           others, could never have been artificial. Nevertheless I must say
 79 Criti|               we are satisfied with the artist who is able in any degree
 80 Criti|                  or from a sense of the artistic difficulty of the design,
 81 Criti|            might be shown to you, I too ask the same or greater forbearance
 82 Criti|                favour, if I am right in asking, I hope that you will be
 83 Criti|               right, and with the river Asopus as the limit on the left.
 84 Criti|            about any subject is a great assistance to him who has to speak
 85 Criti|        testimony that all animals which associate together, male as well as
 86 Criti|               therefore you must go and attack the argument like a man.
 87 Criti|              any of their brethren were attacked. They were to deliberate
 88 Criti|                 any result which can be attained by them, discussions like
 89 Criti|             heaven above an excellently attempered climate. Now the city in
 90 Criti|                 spoken well? I can only attempt to show that I ought to
 91 Criti|              one in any of their cities attempted to overthrow the royal house;
 92 Criti|                 by the fiction. As many attempts have been made to find the
 93 Criti|   chariot-horses without a seat, and an attendant and charioteer, two hoplites,
 94 Criti|               life, they directed their attention to the supply of their wants,
 95 Criti|                 Martin, ‘rests upon the authority of the Egyptian priests;
 96 Criti|              gave the name Mneseus, and Autochthon to the one who followed
 97 Criti|             time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Zeus,
 98 Criti|                to the elder the name of Azaes, and to the younger that
 99 Criti|                 is describing a sort of Babylonian or Egyptian city, to which
100 Criti|       underneath for the ships; for the banks were raised considerably
101 Criti|        earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing
102 Criti|        continent, while the surrounding basin of the sea is everywhere
103 Criti|              they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly,
104 Criti|                 all of them put on most beautiful azure robes, and, sitting
105 Criti|               only afford sustenance to bees, not so very long ago there
106 Criti|                 and at the same time to beg, Socrates, that I may have
107 Criti|              speak of high matters, and begged that some forbearance might
108 Criti|            Critias, whose turn follows, begs that a larger measure of
109 Criti|           unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who
110 Criti|                sacred island which then beheld the light of the sun, brought
111      | behind
112 Criti|                the building a marvel to behold for size and for beauty.
113 Criti|                the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And
114 Criti|                Columns, and the popular belief of the shallowness of the
115 Criti|                 have been deceived into believing it. But it appears strange
116 Criti|                that which more properly belonged to others. They all of them
117 Criti|                 common the virtue which belongs to them without distinction
118 Criti|            modest dwellings, which they bequeathed unaltered to their children’
119 Criti|                as follows:—~No one knew better than Plato how to invent ‘
120 Criti|                or philosopher has given birth to endless religious or
121 Criti|              they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they
122 Criti|           infinite abundance. With such blessings the earth freely furnished
123 Criti|              only that they did not use blows or bodily force, as shepherds
124 Criti|       likenesses which painters make of bodies divine and heavenly, and
125 Criti|               they did not use blows or bodily force, as shepherds do,
126 Criti|                 the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called,
127 Criti|            there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they
128 Criti|             beginning from the sea they bored a canal of three hundred
129 Criti|               his twin brother, who was born after him, and obtained
130 Criti|               manifestly true, that the boundaries were in those days fixed
131 Criti|               intercourse with her, and breaking the ground, inclosed the
132 Criti|             Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence.
133 Criti|              the rescue if any of their brethren were attacked. They were
134 Criti|             including the zones and the bridge, which was the sixth part
135 Criti|               is remarkable that in his brief sketch of them, he idealizes
136 Criti|               them had an accusation to bring against any one; and when
137 Criti|     arrangements for the centre island, bringing up two springs of water
138 Criti|          nearest the Straits. The other brothers he made chiefs over the
139 Criti|           property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they
140 Criti|             accustomed manner, they had burnt its limbs, they filled a
141 Criti|                who made husbandry their business, and were lovers of honour,
142 Criti|                which we use for food—we call them all by the common name
143 Criti|                 the god that they might capture the victim which was acceptable
144 Criti|                followers. And they took care to preserve the same number
145 Criti|            still some traces. They were careful to preserve the number of
146 Criti|               in my possession, and was carefully studied by me when I was
147 Criti|                an abundance of wood for carpenter’s work, and sufficient maintenance
148 Criti|                 who could fight on foot carrying a small shield, and having
149 Criti|               to foreshadow the wars of Carthage and Rome. The small number
150 Criti|              the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the
151 Criti|                may be called, as in the case of small islands, all the
152 Criti|               filled a bowl of wine and cast in a clot of blood for each
153 Criti|                one which surrounded the central island was a stadium only
154 Criti|               ready to grant.~SOCRATES: Certainly, Critias, we will grant
155 Criti|                  America, Arabia Felix, Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia, Sweden.~
156 Criti|             Esdras), as showing how the chance word of some poet or philosopher
157 Criti|              with wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse
158 Criti|             meeting at the mouth of the channel which led to the sea. The
159 Criti|               and they covered over the channels so as to leave a way underneath
160 Criti|               some other cases, Plato’s characters have no reference to the
161 Criti|                them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all
162 Criti|            ointments, and good store of chestnuts and the like, which furnish
163 Criti|               was a fountain, which was choked by the earthquake, and has
164 Criti|                a lathe, each having its circumference equidistant every way from
165 Criti|          suitable trees, also they made cisterns, some open to the heaven,
166 Criti|               life of the true Hellenic citizen. It is remarkable that in
167 Criti|           common property; nor did they claim to receive of the other
168 Criti|               human voices, and din and clatter of all sorts night and day.~
169 Criti|           treasuring it up in the close clay soil, it let off into the
170 Criti|                 like to make my meaning clearer, if you will follow me.
171 Criti|                they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are
172 Criti|               an excellently attempered climate. Now the city in those days
173 Criti|                 treasuring it up in the close clay soil, it let off into
174 Criti|              bowl of wine and cast in a clot of blood for each of them;
175 Criti|               zone, they covered with a coating of brass, and the circuit
176 Criti|               be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into their
177 Criti|           different stones, varying the colour to please the eye, and to
178 Criti|              against sailing beyond the Columns, and the popular belief
179 Criti|                doubt that when his turn comes a little while hence, he
180 Criti|               pillar, and would neither command others, nor obey any ruler
181 Criti|         relations were regulated by the commands of Poseidon which the law
182 Criti|                  he says nothing of the community of wives and children.~It
183 Criti|             Attica which now exists may compare with any region in the world
184 Criti|                 consequence is, that in comparison of what then was, there
185 Criti|             fresh beginning, and not be compelled to say the same things over
186 Criti|               warriors who are his sole concern in the Republic; and that
187 Criti|            history. Hence we may safely conclude that the entire narrative
188 Criti|               Sardinia, Sweden.~Timaeus concludes with a prayer that his words
189 Criti|             ocean in that part: (9) the confession that the depth of the ditch
190 Criti|             nature. The Critias is also connected with the Republic. Plato,
191 Criti|                 his own family, and the connection with Solon, may have suggested
192 Criti|              the struggle, in which she conquered and became the liberator
193 Criti|              and sunk out of sight. The consequence is, that in comparison of
194 Criti|               representation. For if we consider the likenesses which painters
195 Criti|                there has never been any considerable accumulation of the soil
196 Criti|               for the banks were raised considerably above the water. Now the
197 Criti|            meaning, you must excuse me, considering that to form approved likenesses
198 Criti|                  Here he begat a family consisting of five pairs of twin male
199 Criti|               of dessert, with which we console ourselves after dinner,
200 Criti|             were gathered together they consulted about their common interests,
201 Criti|               procure for themselves by contention that which more properly
202 Criti|             such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature,
203 Criti|             their ancestors, which they continued to ornament in successive
204 Criti|                is evidently designed to contrast with the myriads and barbaric
205 Criti|        Introduction to the Timaeus.)~In contrasting the small Greek city numbering
206 Criti|                  found no difficulty in contriving the water-supply of the
207 Criti|               own city had the absolute control of the citizens, and, in
208 Criti|                 wants, and of them they conversed, to the neglect of events
209 Criti|              the several names and when copying them out again translated
210 Criti|                 in size and workmanship corresponded to this magnificence, and
211 Criti|                 and there were palaces, corresponding to the greatness and glory
212 Criti|               truth which mythology had corrupted.~The world, like a child,
213 Criti|          wanting to punish them, held a council of the gods, and when he
214 Criti|                 of a size sufficient to cover the largest houses; and
215 Criti|               the hill was inhabited by craftsmen and husbandmen; and the
216 Criti|               of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had
217 Criti|               did they guide all mortal creatures. Now different gods had
218 Criti|            about their present number’ (Crit.), is evidently designed
219 Criti|            dominion of whose genius the critic and natural philosopher
220 Criti|                 are more precise in our criticism of mortal and human things.
221 Criti|               the fruit which admits of cultivation, both the dry sort, which
222 Criti|             drinking and dedicating the cup out of which he drank in
223 Criti|                 from the bowl in golden cups, and pouring a libation
224 Criti|           temple the roof was of ivory, curiously wrought everywhere with
225 Criti|                 an oath invoking mighty curses on the disobedient. When
226 Criti|             days in accordance with the custom of the time set up a figure
227 Criti|           fruits of the earth in ships, cutting transverse passages from
228 Criti|             satisfied their needs, when darkness came on, and the fire about
229 Criti|                creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed
230 Criti|             they had given judgment, at daybreak they wrote down their sentences
231 Criti|               of the legend, or like M. de Humboldt, whom he quotes,
232 Criti|              that you will need a great deal of indulgence before you
233 Criti|             their laws related to their dealings with one another. They were
234 Criti|                 part in the war will be dealt with as they successively
235 Criti|                 eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the
236 Criti|              others: he might have been deceived into believing it. But it
237 Criti|                 that there is a greater deceiver or magician than the Egyptian
238 Criti|              priests took a pleasure in deceiving the Greeks.’ He never appears
239 Criti|                a sort of indistinct and deceptive mode of shadowing them forth.
240 Criti|                Observe (1) the innocent declaration of Socrates, that the truth
241 Criti|              the same time drinking and dedicating the cup out of which he
242 Criti|                 but the memory of their deeds has passed away; for there
243 Criti|                are quick at finding out defects, and our familiar knowledge
244 Criti|             heavenly, and the different degrees of gratification with which
245 Criti|              Athena, brother and sister deities, in mind and art united,
246 Criti|               to be a natural source of delight. The entire circuit of the
247 Criti|              having offered my prayer I deliver up the argument to Critias,
248 Criti|      particularity with which the third deluge before that of Deucalion
249 Criti|                sea. The entire area was densely crowded with habitations;
250 Criti|               For will any man of sense deny that you have spoken well?
251 Criti|                 part of my discourse is dependent on her favour, and if I
252 Criti|               by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control;
253 Criti|          posterity, and great treasures derived from mines—among them that
254 Criti|           surrounded by mountains which descended towards the sea; it was
255 Criti|            island of Atlantis, Plato is describing a sort of Babylonian or
256 Criti|           tribes. Without regard to the description of Plato, and without a
257 Criti|              artistic difficulty of the design, cannot be determined.~
258 Criti|                to the actual facts. The desire to do honour to his own
259 Criti|      intercourse with one another. They despised everything but virtue, caring
260 Criti|               and the pleasant kinds of dessert, with which we console ourselves
261 Criti|           should have prefixed the most detested of Athenian names to this
262 Criti|                 generations were wholly devoted to acquiring the means of
263 Criti|               palace was situated had a diameter of five stadia. All this
264 Criti|              and to the younger that of Diaprepes. All these and their descendants
265 Criti|              when her father and mother died; Poseidon fell in love with
266 Criti|                to recount their several differences.~As to offices and honours,
267 Criti|               whole earth into portions differing in extent, and made for
268 Criti|                because my theme is more difficult; and I shall argue that
269 Criti|             they left their gardens and dining-halls. In the midst of the Acropolis
270 Criti|                 console ourselves after dinner, when we are tired of eating—
271 Criti|               be somewhat ambitious and discourteous, I must make it nevertheless.
272 Criti|               island of Atlantis, as to discover the country of the lost
273 Criti|              while others, like Martin, discuss the Egyptian origin of the
274 Criti|           invoking mighty curses on the disobedient. When therefore, after slaying
275 Criti|           Humboldt, whom he quotes, are disposed to find in it a vestige
276 Criti|               centre of the island at a distance of about fifty stadia, there
277 Criti|              round: this was everywhere distant fifty stadia from the largest
278 Criti|                woods, or essences which distil from fruit and flower, grew
279 Criti|                 belongs to them without distinction of sex.~Now the country
280 Criti|            beginning the gods agreed to divide the earth by lot in a friendly
281 Criti|                 twin male children; and dividing the island of Atlantis into
282      | does
283 Criti|                 Plato himself, from the dominion of whose genius the critic
284 Criti|                 the cup out of which he drank in the temple of the god;
285 Criti|               god standing in a chariot drawn by six winged horses, and
286 Criti|             column all round. Then they drew from the bowl in golden
287 Criti|           descendants, at the same time drinking and dedicating the cup out
288 Criti|           having a hard rind, affording drinks and meats and ointments,
289 Criti|                of cultivation, both the dry sort, which is given us
290 Criti|                 the entire narrative is due to the imagination of Plato,
291 Criti|                eldest pair his mother’s dwelling and the surrounding allotment,
292 Criti|                the statement made in an earlier passage that Poseidon, being
293 Criti|               names, and found that the early Egyptians in writing them
294 Criti|                the same time there were earthquakes, and then occurred the extraordinary
295 Criti|               of the gods to men is far easier than to speak well of men
296 Criti|                 than the wonders of the East narrated by Herodotus and
297 Criti|            dinner, when we are tired of eating—all these that sacred island
298 Criti|                hollowed out beneath the edges of the zones double docks
299 Criti|               who dwelt apart, and were educated, and had all things in common,
300 Criti|                suitable for nurture and education; neither had any of them
301 Criti|            geological changes have been effected by water: (8) the indulgence
302 Criti|                and found that the early Egyptians in writing them down had
303 Criti|               twins he called the elder Elasippus, and the younger Mestor.
304      | elsewhere
305 Criti|             modern times are not wholly emancipated. Although worthless in respect
306 Criti|              ground, at night, over the embers of the sacrifices by which
307 Criti|             Persian kings. But all such empires were liable to degenerate,
308 Criti|             fruit. These they used, and employed themselves in constructing
309 Criti|                an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find
310 Criti|                his divine power readily enabled him to excavate and fashion,
311 Criti|                 of whom Poseidon became enamoured. He to secure his love enclosed
312 Criti|                land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were
313 Criti|               tin, and the third, which encompassed the citadel, flashed with
314 Criti|            accept your exhortations and encouragements. But besides the gods and
315      | END
316 Criti|                of Solon, and now I must endeavour to represent to you the
317 Criti|                forth. But when a person endeavours to paint the human form
318 Criti|          philosopher has given birth to endless religious or historical
319 Criti|      inhabitants of this fair land were endowed with intelligence and the
320 Criti|                 enclosed the whole, the ends meeting at the mouth of
321 Criti|                 grant that my words may endure in so far as they have been
322 Criti|        Athenians of that day, and their enemies who fought with them, and
323 Criti|               represent the ideal state engaged in a patriotic conflict.
324 Criti|                 religious or historical enquiries. (See Introduction to the
325 Criti|             past; for mythology and the enquiry into antiquity are first
326 Criti|              described the city and the environs of the ancient palace nearly
327 Criti|                are given, as in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious
328 Criti|                having its circumference equidistant every way from the centre,
329 Criti|             dwellings in common and had erected halls for dining in winter,
330 Criti|             just retribution of him who errs is that he should be set
331 Criti|            regarding the Lost Tribes (2 Esdras), as showing how the chance
332 Criti|                or herbage, or woods, or essences which distil from fruit
333 Criti|           abundant produce. How shall I establish my words? and what part
334 Criti|                 Ampheres, and the other Evaemon. To the elder of the third
335 Criti|            conversed, to the neglect of events that had happened in times
336 Criti|             present number’ (Crit.), is evidently designed to contrast with
337 Criti|                 such matters, we do not examine or analyze the painting;
338 Criti|            power readily enabled him to excavate and fashion, and, as there
339 Criti|                 what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred
340 Criti|              and in the heaven above an excellently attempered climate. Now
341 Criti|            shepherds tend their flocks, excepting only that they did not use
342 Criti|                 of the temple, with the exception of the pinnacles, they covered
343 Criti|               is that a single night of excessive rain washed away the earth
344 Criti|            express my meaning, you must excuse me, considering that to
345 Criti|                 And now, making no more excuses, I will proceed.~Let me
346 Criti|              also gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and others
347 Criti|                 meanwhile I accept your exhortations and encouragements. But
348 Criti|             remnant of Attica which now exists may compare with any region
349 Criti|       adversaries, but first I ought to explain that the Greek names were
350 Criti|              speaking I cannot suitably express my meaning, you must excuse
351 Criti|                and in length allowed to extend all round the island, for
352 Criti|                make a similar petition, extends by anticipation a like indulgence
353 Criti|               which they had sworn, and extinguishing all the fire about the temple,
354 Criti|      earthquakes, and then occurred the extraordinary inundation, which was the
355 Criti|              here be truths!’): (3) the extreme minuteness with which the
356 Criti|                 obtained as his lot the extremity of the island towards the
357 Criti|                the whole narrative is a fabrication, interpreters have looked
358 Criti|                the pillars of Heracles, facing the country which is now
359 Criti|                 was not as now. For the fact is that a single night of
360 Criti|                 reference to the actual facts. The desire to do honour
361 Criti|                 divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted
362 Criti|                 remember, Critias, that faint heart never yet raised a
363 Criti|            finding out defects, and our familiar knowledge makes us severe
364 Criti|               nations of barbarians and families of Hellenes which then existed,
365 Criti|          Hellenes. They were a just and famous race, celebrated for their
366 Criti|             enabled him to excavate and fashion, and, as there was no shipping
367 Criti|           describe the plain, as it was fashioned by nature and by the labours
368 Criti|              the globe, America, Arabia Felix, Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia,
369 Criti|               together, male as well as female, may, if they please, practise
370 Criti|              had enclosed with a single fence like the garden of a single
371 Criti|            gathered together and held a festival every fifth and every sixth
372      | few
373 Criti|                been imposed upon by the fiction. As many attempts have been
374 Criti|                 by a horseman who could fight on foot carrying a small
375 Criti|               to preserve the number of fighting men and women at 20,000,
376 Criti|             custom of the time set up a figure and image of the goddess
377 Criti|              human form we are quick at finding out defects, and our familiar
378 Criti|                portions, he gave to the first-born of the eldest pair his mother’
379 Criti|             leader for the men who were fit for military service, and
380 Criti|           boundaries were in those days fixed by the Isthmus, and that
381 Criti|                 as shepherds tend their flocks, excepting only that they
382 Criti|               the walls and pillars and floor, they coated with orichalcum.
383 Criti|             which distil from fruit and flower, grew and thrived in that
384 Criti|               water, in gracious plenty flowing; and they were wonderfully
385 Criti|              now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into
386 Criti|             wealthy villages of country folk, and rivers, and lakes,
387 Criti|            meaning clearer, if you will follow me. All that is said by
388 Criti|                  who were their willing followers. And they took care to preserve
389 Criti|             horseman who could fight on foot carrying a small shield,
390 Criti|                 Hellenic names given to foreigners. I will tell you the reason
391 Criti|                is intended by Virgil to foreshadow the wars of Carthage and
392 Criti|                 And next, if I have not forgotten what I heard when I was
393 Criti|              being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to
394 Criti|                who followed him. Of the fourth pair of twins he called
395 Criti|               ANALYSIS~The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the
396 Criti|                such blessings the earth freely furnished them; meanwhile
397 Criti|              may provide himself with a fresh beginning, and not be compelled
398 Criti|            divide the earth by lot in a friendly manner, and when they had
399 Criti|               of their adversaries. For friends should not keep their stories
400 Criti|                last and have another in front of you, have not lost heart
401 Criti|                 to which he opposes the frugal life of the true Hellenic
402 Criti|                 there, solid as well as fusile, and that which is now only
403 Criti|                now called the region of Gades in that part of the world,
404 Criti|                side, placing towers and gates on the bridges where the
405 Criti|                in future concerning the generation of the gods, I pray him
406 Criti|              from the dominion of whose genius the critic and natural philosopher
407 Criti|                names and indications of geography are intermingled (‘Why,
408 Criti|              the happy guess that great geological changes have been effected
409 Criti|               fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no
410 Criti|               as elsewhere, ingeniously gives the impression that he is
411 Criti|               spot in every part of the globe, America, Arabia Felix,
412 Criti|                  and therefore you must go and attack the argument
413 Criti|                But besides the gods and goddesses whom you have mentioned,
414 Criti|                meats and ointments, and good store of chestnuts and the
415 Criti|              saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtue
416 Criti|         admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then,
417 Criti|             force, as shepherds do, but governed us like pilots from the
418 Criti|                their minds the order of government; their names are preserved,
419 Criti|                another of hot water, in gracious plenty flowing; and they
420 Criti|              not caring about them. But gradually the divine portion of their
421 Criti|             manuscript was left with my grandfather Dropides, and is now in
422 Criti|              not know. Socrates readily grants his request, and anticipating
423 Criti|                 and fragrant herbs, and grasses, and trees bearing fruit.
424 Criti|                the different degrees of gratification with which the eye of the
425 Criti|              not lost heart as yet; the gravity of the situation will soon
426 Criti|              them into our language. My great-grandfather, Dropides, had the original
427 Criti|                 became the liberator of Greece, is also an allusion to
428 Criti|                 continent; but even Mr. Grote is inclined to believe in
429 Criti|            Attica, a land suited to the growth of virtue and wisdom; and
430 Criti|                race in. Also there were guard-houses at intervals for the guards,
431 Criti|              destruction: (7) the happy guess that great geological changes
432 Criti|            pilots of mankind, whom they guided by persuasion, and not by
433 Criti|                 which is an easy way of guiding animals, holding our souls
434 Criti|             they left their gardens and gymnasia and dining halls, and then
435 Criti|                was densely crowded with habitations; and the canal and the largest
436 Criti|                a stadium in length, and half a stadium in width, and
437 Criti|              human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable
438 Criti|          classes of citizens, including handicraftsmen and husbandmen and a superior
439 Criti|                 kingdom, the eldest son handing it on to his eldest for
440 Criti|               observe the same thing to happen in discourse; we are satisfied
441 Criti|              neglect of events that had happened in times long past; for
442 Criti|              had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious
443 Criti|              great destruction: (7) the happy guess that great geological
444 Criti|                 and the fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks and
445 Criti|            Atlantis. In modern times we hardly seek for traces of the submerged
446 Criti|              and utter ignorance of his hearers about any subject is a great
447 Criti|                was bound to furnish two heavy-armed soldiers, two archers, two
448 Criti|                own land and the rest of Hellas; they were renowned all
449 Criti|                would not, if they could help, offend against the writing
450 Criti|                earth, whether roots, or herbage, or woods, or essences which
451 Criti|                 all kinds, and fragrant herbs, and grasses, and trees
452 Criti|              was abundance of wood, and herds of elephants, and pastures
453      | herself
454 Criti|               plain around the city was highly cultivated and sheltered
455 Criti|                 its mountains were high hills covered with soil, and the
456 Criti|                 to endless religious or historical enquiries. (See Introduction
457 Criti|                 the priests and brought hither by Solon, I doubt not that
458 Criti|                 way of guiding animals, holding our souls by the rudder
459 Criti|               soil, it let off into the hollows the streams which it absorbed
460 Criti|          differences.~As to offices and honours, the following was the arrangement
461 Criti|                 I am right in asking, I hope that you will be ready to
462 Criti|           attendant and charioteer, two hoplites, two archers, two slingers,
463 Criti|                a seat, accompanied by a horseman who could fight on foot
464 Criti|          barbaric array of the Atlantic hosts. The passing remark in the
465 Criti|               the legend, or like M. de Humboldt, whom he quotes, are disposed
466 Criti|            which was acceptable to him, hunted the bulls, without weapons,
467 Criti|               true husbandmen, who made husbandry their business, and were
468 Criti|                brief sketch of them, he idealizes the husbandmen ‘who are
469 Criti|              the inexperience and utter ignorance of his hearers about any
470 Criti|                 days they were the most illustrious. And next, if I have not
471 Criti|            interior of the temple other images which had been dedicated
472 Criti|               described as those of our imaginary guardians. Concerning the
473 Criti|                 narrative is due to the imagination of Plato, who has used the
474 Criti|                is able in any degree to imitate the earth and its mountains,
475 Criti|                by any of us can only be imitation and representation. For
476 Criti|                the sea, but the country immediately about and surrounding the
477 Criti|              when I was a child, I will impart to you the character and
478 Criti|                an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers
479 Criti|              and virtue; and there they implanted brave children of the soil,
480 Criti|              wrong, I pray that he will impose upon me a just retribution,
481 Criti|             later ages should have been imposed upon by the fiction. As
482 Criti|             they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods
483 Criti|                Poseidon, which remained inaccessible, and was surrounded by an
484 Criti|        continent; but even Mr. Grote is inclined to believe in the Egyptian
485 Criti|                and breaking the ground, inclosed the hill in which she dwelt
486 Criti|                 to degenerate, and soon incurred the anger of the gods. Their
487 Criti|              the armed statue of Athena indicated the common warrior life
488 Criti|             which traditional names and indications of geography are intermingled (‘
489 Criti|                is required is a sort of indistinct and deceptive mode of shadowing
490 Criti|                the kings and of private individuals, and separate baths for
491 Criti|             well of men to men: for the inexperience and utter ignorance of his
492 Criti|                 character was accounted infamous by Xenophon, and that the
493 Criti|                fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance. With such blessings
494 Criti|           woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that
495 Criti|                Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason assigned for the
496 Criti|               Plato here, as elsewhere, ingeniously gives the impression that
497 Criti|                 largest vessels to find ingress. Moreover, they divided
498 Criti|               they were filled with all iniquity. The all-seeing Zeus, wanting
499 Criti|          another were determined by the injunctions of Poseidon, which had been
500 Criti|                the outer as well as the inner side. One kind was white,