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501 Criti|             noble lie.’ Observe (1) the innocent declaration of Socrates,
502 Criti|              for themselves temples and instituted sacrifices. And Poseidon,
503 Criti|             fair land were endowed with intelligence and the love of beauty.~
504 Criti|                 of this: Solon, who was intending to use the tale for his
505 Criti|                  Martin (Timee) have an interest of their own, and may be
506 Criti|            consulted about their common interests, and enquired if any one
507 Criti|             narrative is a fabrication, interpreters have looked for the spot
508 Criti|                 them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth
509 Criti|              which the land supplied by introducing streams from the canals.~
510 Criti|              occurred the extraordinary inundation, which was the third before
511 Criti|                better than Plato how to invent ‘a noble lie.’ Observe (
512 Criti|                as the ideal Athens, was invincible, though matched against
513 Criti|             there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the disobedient.
514 Criti|            weary traveller after a long journey, may be at rest! And I pray
515 Criti|              they swore that they would judge according to the laws on
516 Criti|               knowledge makes us severe judges of any one who does not
517 Criti|               be a degree of virtue and justice, such as the Greeks believed
518 Criti|                 fruits which spoil with keeping, and the pleasant kinds
519 Criti|              and governments of the two kingdoms. Let us give the precedence
520 Criti|          fashioned by nature and by the labours of many generations of kings
521 Criti|           themselves and their children lacked for many generations the
522 Criti|               washed away the earth and laid bare the rock; at the same
523 Criti|         received the tradition, and the lapse of ages. For when there
524 Criti|               rule over many men, and a large territory. And he named
525 Criti|               long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient
526 Criti|               which he turned as with a lathe, each having its circumference
527      | latter
528 Criti|            again let off into the ditch leading to the sea: these canals
529 Criti|              over the channels so as to leave a way underneath for the
530 Criti|              the Egyptian origin of the legend, or like M. de Humboldt,
531 Criti|                 when they begin to have leisure (Cp. Arist. Metaphys.),
532      | less
533 Criti|          appointed to keep watch in the lesser zone, which was nearer the
534 Criti|               But all such empires were liable to degenerate, and soon
535 Criti|              golden cups, and pouring a libation on the fire, they swore
536 Criti|                conquered and became the liberator of Greece, is also an allusion
537 Criti|           island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards
538 Criti|            Plato how to invent ‘a noble lie.’ Observe (1) the innocent
539 Criti|             three javelin-men, who were light-armed, and four sailors to make
540 Criti|             state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold
541      | likely
542 Criti|            things which has very little likeness to them; but we are more
543 Criti|                the sea. Further inland, likewise, straight canals of a hundred
544 Criti|              manner, they had burnt its limbs, they filled a bowl of wine
545 Criti|                 the river Asopus as the limit on the left. The land was
546 Criti|                rest of the interior was lined with orichalcum. Within
547 Criti|               souls, and of all men who lived in those days they were
548 Criti|                And so they passed their lives as guardians of the citizens
549 Criti|              was said by him to be very lofty and precipitous on the side
550 Criti|                  which I will describe. Looking towards the sea, but in
551 Criti|             from the plain, there was a low mountain in which dwelt
552 Criti|                were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive
553 Criti|                is a greater deceiver or magician than the Egyptian priests,
554 Criti|        workmanship corresponded to this magnificence, and the palaces, in like
555 Criti|              who was called Cleito. The maiden had already reached womanhood,
556 Criti|        carpenter’s work, and sufficient maintenance for tame and wild animals.
557      | makes
558 Criti|         charioteer who stood behind the man-at-arms to guide the two horses;
559 Criti|                is not only probable but manifestly true, that the boundaries
560 Criti|                 or rather the pilots of mankind, whom they guided by persuasion,
561 Criti|                and translated them. His manuscript was left with my grandfather
562 Criti|                 which live in lakes and marshes and rivers, and also for
563 Criti|                they made the building a marvel to behold for size and for
564 Criti|                 mythology, and not more marvellous than the wonders of the
565 Criti|                  was invincible, though matched against any number of opponents (
566 Criti|              and rivers, and lakes, and meadows supplying food enough for
567 Criti|                 a middle course between meanness and ostentation, and built
568 Criti|                devoted to acquiring the means of life...And the armed
569 Criti|             follows, begs that a larger measure of indulgence may be conceded
570 Criti|              rind, affording drinks and meats and ointments, and good
571 Criti|                 knowledge, which of all medicines is the most perfect and
572 Criti|                with their robes to be a memorial.~There were many special
573 Criti|                still be observed sacred memorials in places where fountains
574 Criti|                 in later times, but the memory of their deeds has passed
575 Criti|                 centre island: (10) the mention of the old rivalry of Poseidon
576 Criti|                were full of vessels and merchants coming from all parts, who,
577 Criti|              Elasippus, and the younger Mestor. And of the fifth pair he
578 Criti|                among them that precious metal orichalcum; and there was
579 Criti|                have leisure (Cp. Arist. Metaphys.), and when they see that
580 Criti|            which surrounded the ancient metropolis, making a road to and from
581 Criti|                and dining-halls. In the midst of the Acropolis was a fountain,
582 Criti|              inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the disobedient.
583 Criti|                soil, and put into their minds the order of government;
584 Criti|            great treasures derived from mines—among them that precious
585 Criti|              truths!’): (3) the extreme minuteness with which the numbers are
586 Criti|                I would specially invoke Mnemosyne; for all the important part
587 Criti|               of twins he gave the name Mneseus, and Autochthon to the one
588 Criti|                indistinct and deceptive mode of shadowing them forth.
589 Criti|             things. Wherefore if at the moment of speaking I cannot suitably
590 Criti|                 the things that are and move therein, and further, that
591      | Mr
592 Criti|                an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from
593 Criti|           country there was also a vast multitude, which was distributed among
594 Criti|                their numbers, kept up a multitudinous sound of human voices, and
595 Criti|             First invoke Apollo and the Muses, and then let us hear you
596 Criti|         precedence among them and their mutual relations were regulated
597 Criti|           designed to contrast with the myriads and barbaric array of the
598      | myself
599 Criti|                patriotic conflict. This mythical conflict is prophetic or
600 Criti|                 the wonders of the East narrated by Herodotus and others:
601 Criti|                 will unfold the various nations of barbarians and families
602 Criti|                 roofs formed out of the native rock. Some of their buildings
603 Criti|            portion this land, which was naturally adapted for wisdom and virtue;
604 Criti|               were full of triremes and naval stores, and all things were
605 Criti|              the lesser zone, which was nearer the Acropolis; while the
606 Criti|                of the country which was nearest the Straits. The other brothers
607 Criti|          environs of the ancient palace nearly in the words of Solon, and
608 Criti|                anything more than their necessary food. And they practised
609 Criti|           successful, and that you will need a great deal of indulgence
610 Criti|              supped and satisfied their needs, when darkness came on,
611 Criti|             them they conversed, to the neglect of events that had happened
612 Criti|               is everywhere deep in the neighbourhood of the shore. Many great
613 Criti|            weapons, but with staves and nooses; and the bull which they
614 Criti|                 the simplicity of Greek notions. In the island of Atlantis,
615 Criti|             sort, which is given us for nourishment and any other which we use
616 Criti|        contrasting the small Greek city numbering about twenty thousand inhabitants
617 Criti|              Tyrrhenia. Now Atlas had a numerous and honourable family, and
618 Criti|              them they tended us, their nurselings and possessions, as shepherds
619 Criti|                 all things suitable for nurture and education; neither had
620 Criti|                  there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on
621 Criti|             neither command others, nor obey any ruler who commanded
622 Criti|         predecessors, they knew only by obscure traditions; and as they
623 Criti|                which there may still be observed sacred memorials in places
624 Criti|                proceed.~Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine
625 Criti|            assigned for the Greek names occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5)
626 Criti|              giving equal honour to the odd and to the even number.
627 Criti|                not, if they could help, offend against the writing on the
628 Criti|               and gave judgment against offenders. The most important of their
629 Criti|              the ten portions, to be an offering to each of the ten. Here
630 Criti|             there were many other great offerings of kings and of private
631 Criti|              several differences.~As to offices and honours, the following
632      | often
633 Criti|          affording drinks and meats and ointments, and good store of chestnuts
634      | once
635 Criti|                 harbour, and leaving an opening sufficient to enable the
636 Criti|                the theatre. They are of opinion that the last performer
637 Criti|           matched against any number of opponents (cp. Rep.). Even in a great
638 Criti|              Egyptian city, to which he opposes the frugal life of the true
639 Criti|                anger of the gods. Their Oriental wealth, and splendour of
640 Criti|    great-grandfather, Dropides, had the original writing, which is still
641 Criti|                was also a warrior class originally set apart by divine men.
642 Criti|                 This ancient palace was ornamented by successive generations;
643 Criti|             course between meanness and ostentation, and built modest houses
644      | otherwise
645      | ourselves
646 Criti|               degenerate, though to the outward eye they appeared glorious
647 Criti|               their cities attempted to overthrow the royal house; like their
648 Criti|            wonderful height and beauty, owing to the excellence of the
649 Criti|           square of ten stadia; and the owner of a lot was bound to furnish
650 Criti|             when a person endeavours to paint the human form we are quick
651 Criti|           consider the likenesses which painters make of bodies divine and
652 Criti|              not examine or analyze the painting; all that is required is
653 Criti|          America, Arabia Felix, Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia, Sweden.~Timaeus
654 Criti|                 the mouth of Socrates a panegyric on him (Tim.). Yet we know
655 Criti|                 the zones of land which parted the zones of sea, leaving
656 Criti|               of men and women: (6) the particularity with which the third deluge
657 Criti|                 for a single trireme to pass out of one zone into another,
658 Criti|               ships, cutting transverse passages from one canal into another,
659 Criti|              had happened in times long past; for mythology and the enquiry
660 Criti|                ideal state engaged in a patriotic conflict. This mythical
661 Criti|                to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race
662 Criti|               all medicines is the most perfect and best. And now having
663 Criti|       earth-born men, would have seemed perfectly accordant with the character
664 Criti|                of opinion that the last performer was wonderfully successful,
665 Criti|              the struggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree
666 Criti|        shadowing them forth. But when a person endeavours to paint the
667 Criti|         Hermocrates will make a similar petition, extends by anticipation
668 Criti|               they are termed by us, of Phelleus were full of rich earth,
669 Criti|                 we are satisfied with a picture of divine and heavenly things
670 Criti|               stone wall on every side, placing towers and gates on the
671 Criti|            ready for use. Enough of the plan of the royal palace.~Leaving
672 Criti|                buildings about them and planted suitable trees, also they
673 Criti|             which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist,
674 Criti|             spoil with keeping, and the pleasant kinds of dessert, with which
675 Criti|                for use by reason of the pleasantness and excellence of their
676 Criti|                judgment they gave their pledges to one another on this wise:—
677 Criti|               of hot water, in gracious plenty flowing; and they were wonderfully
678 Criti|         honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict
679 Criti|                 the chance word of some poet or philosopher has given
680 Criti|               given, as in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason
681 Criti|            among them by allotment (Cp. Polit.) There was no quarrelling;
682 Criti|             beyond the Columns, and the popular belief of the shallowness
683 Criti|              from the canals.~As to the population, each of the lots in the
684 Criti|                us, their nurselings and possessions, as shepherds tend their
685 Criti|         Tyrrhenia. Now Atlas had a fair posterity, and great treasures derived
686 Criti|           before possessed by kings and potentates, and is not likely ever
687 Criti|                bowl in golden cups, and pouring a libation on the fire,
688 Criti|            female, may, if they please, practise in common the virtue which
689 Criti|               let us hear you sound the praises and show forth the virtues
690 Criti|                  after they had offered prayers to the god that they might
691 Criti|                him to be very lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea,
692 Criti|           virtues and the laws of their predecessors, they knew only by obscure
693 Criti|                 way that the Persian is prefigured by the Trojan war to the
694 Criti|         singular that Plato should have prefixed the most detested of Athenian
695 Criti|                8) the indulgence of the prejudice against sailing beyond the
696 Criti|             dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men of that country, whose
697 Criti|                names which are recorded prior to the time of Theseus,
698 Criti|           priests said what is not only probable but manifestly true, that
699 Criti|               island of Atlantis, Plato probably intended to show that a
700 Criti|                 no more excuses, I will proceed.~Let me begin by observing
701 Criti|             them in common.~Yet, before proceeding further in the narrative,
702 Criti|                 that they would seek to procure for themselves by contention
703 Criti|               yielded far more abundant produce. How shall I establish my
704 Criti|           Critias returns to his story, professing only to repeat what Solon
705 Criti|              any part of the ocean. The progress of the history will unfold
706 Criti|            whole country is only a long promontory extending far into the sea
707 Criti|              gods did not know what was proper for each of them to have,
708 Criti|              contention that which more properly belonged to others. They
709 Criti|               This mythical conflict is prophetic or symbolical of the struggle
710 Criti|              stadium in width, and of a proportionate height, having a strange
711 Criti|             island of Atlantis. Critias proposes to speak of these rival
712 Criti|                order, then, that he may provide himself with a fresh beginning,
713 Criti|              absorbed from the heights, providing everywhere abundant fountains
714 Criti|                island; for as there was provision for all other sorts of animals,
715 Criti|               all by the common name of pulse, and the fruits having a
716 Criti|                most cases, of the laws, punishing and slaying whomsoever he
717 Criti|                  and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might
718 Criti|               in the fire, after having purified the column all round. Then
719 Criti|               were required for warlike purposes, then as now—that is to
720 Criti|                 of a divine nature, the qualities which we have described
721 Criti|                Cp. Polit.) There was no quarrelling; for you cannot rightly
722 Criti|             paint the human form we are quick at finding out defects,
723 Criti|             stores, and all things were quite ready for use. Enough of
724 Criti|                 M. de Humboldt, whom he quotes, are disposed to find in
725 Criti|               two there was set apart a race-course of a stadium in width, and
726 Criti|           larger of the two there was a racecourse for horses, which ran all
727 Criti|               single night of excessive rain washed away the earth and
728 Criti|               the benefit of the annual rainfall, not as now losing the water
729 Criti|               having the benefit of the rains of heaven, and in summer
730 Criti|            There were bulls who had the range of the temple of Poseidon;
731 Criti|          alternately. Around the temple ranged the bulls of Poseidon, one
732      | rather
733 Criti|                  The maiden had already reached womanhood, when her father
734 Criti|              cattle. Moreover, the land reaped the benefit of the annual
735 Criti|              our land for the following reasons, as tradition tells: For
736 Criti|         property; nor did they claim to receive of the other citizens anything
737 Criti|                the eye of the spectator receives them, we shall see that
738 Criti|              and if I can recollect and recite enough of what was said
739 Criti|                her favour, and if I can recollect and recite enough of what
740 Criti|             most of the names which are recorded prior to the time of Theseus,
741 Criti|                it would be wearisome to recount their several differences.~
742 Criti|              their own language, and he recovered the meaning of the several
743 Criti|                It was for the most part rectangular and oblong, and where falling
744 Criti|              Plato’s characters have no reference to the actual facts. The
745 Criti|            adopting a different vein of reflection, regard the Island of Atlantis
746 Criti|           friendship with them. By such reflections and by the continuance in
747 Criti|         anything of their own, but they regarded all that they had as common
748 Criti|                 the similar discussions regarding the Lost Tribes (2 Esdras),
749 Criti|             their mutual relations were regulated by the commands of Poseidon
750 Criti|                 important of their laws related to their dealings with one
751 Criti|              has given birth to endless religious or historical enquiries. (
752 Criti|              this last the traces still remain, for although some of the
753 Criti|       excellence of the soil, while the remainder was conveyed by aqueducts
754 Criti|              Cleito and Poseidon, which remained inaccessible, and was surrounded
755 Criti|                what then was, there are remaining only the bones of the wasted
756 Criti|               country was then, as what remains of it still is, the most
757 Criti|                 Hellenic citizen. It is remarkable that in his brief sketch
758 Criti|                 follows:—~I have before remarked in speaking of the allotments
759 Criti|                also take to myself. But remember, Critias, that faint heart
760 Criti|                 of any one who does not render every point of similarity.
761 Criti|               rest of Hellas; they were renowned all over Europe and Asia
762 Criti|                number of opponents (cp. Rep.). Even in a great empire
763 Criti|                  the city of Athens was reported to have been the leader
764 Criti|            zones according to the trust reposed in them; the most trusted
765 Criti|               can only be imitation and representation. For if we consider the
766 Criti|                that I shall satisfy the requirements of this theatre. And now,
767 Criti|               and the harbour and canal resounded with the din of human voices.~
768 Criti|                 with them, and then the respective powers and governments of
769 Criti|                 tale,’ says M. Martin, ‘rests upon the authority of the
770 Criti|             worthless in respect of any result which can be attained by
771 Criti|             honourable family, and they retained the kingdom, the eldest
772 Criti|            single house. In winter they retired into houses on the north
773 Criti|              indulgence to him.~Critias returns to his story, professing
774 Criti|       likenesses of human things is the reverse of easy. This is what I
775 Criti|               of small islands, all the richer and softer parts of the
776 Criti|               only have the true use of riches by not caring about them.
777 Criti|              and after this manner they righteously administered their own land
778 Criti|             quarrelling; for you cannot rightly suppose that the gods did
779 Criti|                the fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks and meats
780 Criti|              enclosed the mountain with rings or zones varying in size,
781 Criti|              proposes to speak of these rival powers first of all, giving
782 Criti|                  the mention of the old rivalry of Poseidon and Athene,
783 Criti|                 the right, and with the river Asopus as the limit on the
784 Criti|            ancient metropolis, making a road to and from the royal palace.
785 Criti|                the wars of Carthage and Rome. The small number of the
786 Criti|              open to the heaven, others roofed over, to be used in winter
787 Criti|               the zones of sea, leaving room for a single trireme to
788 Criti|               are in the earth, whether roots, or herbage, or woods, or
789 Criti|                holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according
790 Criti|             made princes, and gave them rule over many men, and a large
791 Criti|            command others, nor obey any ruler who commanded them, to act
792 Criti|                were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the
793 Criti|              Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is
794 Criti|                  and the fire about the sacrifice was cool, all of them put
795 Criti|                the ten kings caught and sacrificed, shedding the blood of the
796 Criti|             later history. Hence we may safely conclude that the entire
797 Criti|          sometimes intermingled for the sake of ornament; and as they
798 Criti|               Felix, Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia, Sweden.~Timaeus concludes
799 Criti|                I doubt not that I shall satisfy the requirements of this
800 Criti|            fruits of the earth in their season from all the ten portions,
801 Criti|                 became enamoured. He to secure his love enclosed the mountain
802 Criti| well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed they were; for they possessed
803      | seem
804 Criti|              ago there were still to be seen roofs of timber cut from
805 Criti|            wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and
806 Criti|           breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the
807 Criti|          daybreak they wrote down their sentences on a golden tablet, and
808 Criti|               who were fit for military service, and the size of a lot was
809 Criti|             familiar knowledge makes us severe judges of any one who does
810 Criti|             them without distinction of sex.~Now the country was inhabited
811 Criti|        indistinct and deceptive mode of shadowing them forth. But when a person
812 Criti|               the popular belief of the shallowness of the ocean in that part: (
813 Criti|              and even, and of an oblong shape, extending in one direction
814 Criti|            kings caught and sacrificed, shedding the blood of the victim
815 Criti|                on foot carrying a small shield, and having a charioteer
816 Criti|           fashion, and, as there was no shipping in those days, no man could
817 Criti|                the neighbourhood of the shore. Many great deluges have
818 Criti|              Lost Tribes (2 Esdras), as showing how the chance word of some
819 Criti|               some forbearance might be shown to you, I too ask the same
820 Criti|                 Acropolis and under the sides of the hill there dwelt
821 Criti|               all round and sunk out of sight. The consequence is, that
822 Criti|               not render every point of similarity. And we may observe the
823 Criti|                 of their buildings were simple, but in others they put
824 Criti|                 be at variance with the simplicity of Greek notions. In the
825 Criti|             beautiful azure robes, and, sitting on the ground, at night,
826 Criti|                 yet; the gravity of the situation will soon be revealed to
827 Criti|               fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the land being left.
828 Criti|            remarkable that in his brief sketch of them, he idealizes the
829 Criti|                 sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another;
830 Criti|                 towards the sea; it was smooth and even, and of an oblong
831 Criti|             self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all
832 Criti|             islands, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having
833 Criti|                 furnish two heavy-armed soldiers, two archers, two slingers,
834 Criti|                the warriors who are his sole concern in the Republic;
835 Criti|         whatever was to be found there, solid as well as fusile, and that
836      | something
837      | sometimes
838 Criti|                request may appear to be somewhat ambitious and discourteous,
839 Criti|                 the kingdom, the eldest son handing it on to his eldest
840 Criti|                 Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher,
841 Criti|                eye, and to be a natural source of delight. The entire circuit
842 Criti|              dining halls, and then the southern side of the hill was made
843 Criti|           Attica in those days extended southwards to the Isthmus, and inland
844 Criti|                called them together, he spake as follows—1~THE END~
845 Criti|            Republic; and that though he speaks of the common pursuits of
846 Criti|                 have mentioned, I would specially invoke Mnemosyne; for all
847 Criti|               with which the eye of the spectator receives them, we shall
848 Criti|             true and in every way great spirits, uniting gentleness with
849 Criti|              Their Oriental wealth, and splendour of gold and silver, and
850 Criti|         amusement, and are fruits which spoil with keeping, and the pleasant
851 Criti|                called them together, he spoke as follows:—~No one knew
852 Criti|                 brother and sister, and sprang from the same father, having
853 Criti|                every variety of food to spring up abundantly from the soil.
854 Criti|               heard’, compared with the statement made in an earlier passage
855 Criti|                 trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never
856 Criti|               the remark that the armed statue of Athena indicated the
857 Criti|               without weapons, but with staves and nooses; and the bull
858 Criti|                 us like pilots from the stern of the vessel, which is
859 Criti|             they put together different stones, varying the colour to please
860 Criti|                 having a charioteer who stood behind the man-at-arms to
861 Criti|                 and ointments, and good store of chestnuts and the like,
862 Criti|           friends should not keep their stories to themselves, but have
863 Criti|           country which was nearest the Straits. The other brothers he made
864 Criti|           possession, and was carefully studied by me when I was a child.
865 Criti|           hardly seek for traces of the submerged continent; but even Mr.
866 Criti|              dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature.
867 Criti|               performer was wonderfully successful, and that you will need
868 Criti|                  This is what I want to suggest to you, and at the same
869 Criti|         connection with Solon, may have suggested the introduction of his
870 Criti|        excellence of its fruits and the suitableness of its pastures to every
871 Criti|             moment of speaking I cannot suitably express my meaning, you
872 Criti|              the land of Attica, a land suited to the growth of virtue
873 Criti|              that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed
874 Criti|                 always the same. But in summer-time they left their gardens
875 Criti|                 beheld the light of the sun, brought forth fair and
876 Criti|     handicraftsmen and husbandmen and a superior class of warriors who dwelt
877 Criti|                 god; and after they had supped and satisfied their needs,
878 Criti|                  and lakes, and meadows supplying food enough for every animal,
879 Criti|         therefore able in those days to support a vast army, raised from
880 Criti|                  for you cannot rightly suppose that the gods did not know
881 Criti|               other matters, giving the supremacy to the descendants of Atlas.
882 Criti|                the Pnyx, having a level surface and deep soil. The side
883 Criti|                 generations, every king surpassing the one who went before
884 Criti|            deluges, and the remnant who survived in the mountains were ignorant
885 Criti|                 For when there were any survivors, as I have already said,
886 Criti|            Greeks.’ He never appears to suspect that there is a greater
887 Criti|                 of Plato, and without a suspicion that the whole narrative
888 Criti|               mountains now only afford sustenance to bees, not so very long
889 Criti|            Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia, Sweden.~Timaeus concludes with
890 Criti|              libation on the fire, they swore that they would judge according
891 Criti|            sacrifices by which they had sworn, and extinguishing all the
892 Criti|                conflict is prophetic or symbolical of the struggle of Athens
893 Criti|                in which they held their syssitia. These were modest dwellings,
894 Criti|             their sentences on a golden tablet, and dedicated it together
895 Criti|               children of the soil, and taught them how to order the state.
896 Criti|             given to foreigners. I will tell you the reason of this:
897 Criti|               the impression that he is telling the truth which mythology
898 Criti|                 for all and of suitable temperature in summer and in winter.
899 Criti|               possessions, as shepherds tend their flocks, excepting
900 Criti|              they had peopled them they tended us, their nurselings and
901 Criti|                 the plains, as they are termed by us, of Phelleus were
902 Criti|              over many men, and a large territory. And he named them all;
903 Criti|                 in full armour, to be a testimony that all animals which associate
904 Criti|                  Socrates.~TIMAEUS: How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have
905 Criti|         indulgence than you, because my theme is more difficult; and I
906      | therein
907 Criti|           recorded prior to the time of Theseus, such as Cecrops, and Erechtheus,
908 Criti|                 we may observe the same thing to happen in discourse;
909 Criti|              present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession
910 Criti|                first saw the light, and thither the people annually brought
911 Criti|               on dolphins, for such was thought to be the number of them
912 Criti|              fruit and flower, grew and thrived in that land; also the fruit
913 Criti|               to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of it so that
914 Criti|               of the husbandmen as were tilling the ground near; the warrior
915 Criti|               still to be seen roofs of timber cut from trees growing there,
916 Criti|                like those of M. Martin (Timee) have an interest of their
917 Criti|               after dinner, when we are tired of eating—all these that
918 Criti|              and of such a size that he touched the roof of the building
919 Criti|               by six winged horses, and touching the roof with his head;
920 Criti|             wall on every side, placing towers and gates on the bridges
921 Criti|                  2) the manner in which traditional names and indications of
922 Criti|               they knew only by obscure traditions; and as they themselves
923 Criti|          inscription, and vowing not to transgress the laws of their father
924 Criti|                 earth in ships, cutting transverse passages from one canal
925 Criti|                 last, and, like a weary traveller after a long journey, may
926 Criti|               fair posterity, and great treasures derived from mines—among
927 Criti|           receiving it into herself and treasuring it up in the close clay
928 Criti|               leaving room for a single trireme to pass out of one zone
929 Criti|            Persian is prefigured by the Trojan war to the mind of Herodotus,
930 Criti|                heart never yet raised a trophy; and therefore you must
931 Criti|             intermingled (‘Why, here be truths!’): (3) the extreme minuteness
932 Criti|                three of water, which he turned as with a lathe, each having
933 Criti|               another, and to the city. Twice in the year they gathered
934 Criti|            upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved
935 Criti|        dwellings, which they bequeathed unaltered to their children’s children.
936 Criti|              things over again, let him understand that the indulgence is already
937 Criti|            progress of the history will unfold the various nations of barbarians
938 Criti|          readily, and for the most part unhesitatingly, accepted the tale of the
939 Criti|               acceptably to him; but if unintentionally I have said anything wrong,
940 Criti|                every way great spirits, uniting gentleness with wisdom in
941 Criti|                  and the woods, and the universe, and the things that are
942 Criti|                were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Zeus, the god of
943 Criti|             bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye
944      | until
945 Criti|                the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable
946 Criti|                required by them for the uses of life. In the first place,
947 Criti|              who went before him to the utmost of his power, until they
948 Criti|                for the inexperience and utter ignorance of his hearers
949 Criti|           colours, seemed also to be at variance with the simplicity of Greek
950 Criti|              the other nine governments varied, and it would be wearisome
951 Criti|            Others, adopting a different vein of reflection, regard the
952 Criti|                Egyptian priests to give verisimilitude to his story. To the Greek
953 Criti|            pilots from the stern of the vessel, which is an easy way of
954 Criti|                disposed to find in it a vestige of a widely-spread tradition.
955 Criti|                which still exist in the vicinity, but in those days the fountain
956 Criti|               the Aeneid is intended by Virgil to foreshadow the wars of
957 Criti|              who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing
958 Criti|                 is the largest and most voracious of all. Also whatever fragrant
959 Criti|               over the inscription, and vowing not to transgress the laws
960 Criti|            impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any
961 Criti|               the island, for ships and voyages were not as yet. He himself,
962 Criti|                 of easy. This is what I want to suggest to you, and at
963 Criti|        apportionment obtained what they wanted, and peopled their own districts;
964 Criti|        attention to the supply of their wants, and of them they conversed,
965 Criti|               many as were required for warlike purposes, then as now—that
966 Criti|               the narrative, I ought to warn you, that you must not be
967 Criti|                 place.~HERMOCRATES: The warning, Socrates, which you have
968 Criti|         remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called,
969 Criti|             whom were appointed to keep watch in the lesser zone, which
970 Criti|            difficulty in contriving the water-supply of the centre island: (10)
971 Criti|                 and excellence of their waters. They constructed buildings
972 Criti|                having in them also many wealthy villages of country folk,
973 Criti|               hunted the bulls, without weapons, but with staves and nooses;
974 Criti|                 varied, and it would be wearisome to recount their several
975 Criti|            arrived at last, and, like a weary traveller after a long journey,
976 Criti|               obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed
977      | whereas
978 Criti|                mortal and human things. Wherefore if at the moment of speaking
979      | whither
980 Criti|             laws, punishing and slaying whomsoever he would. Now the order
981 Criti|               find in it a vestige of a widely-spread tradition. Others, adopting
982 Criti|                 from the mountains, and winding round the plain and meeting
983 Criti|            limbs, they filled a bowl of wine and cast in a clot of blood
984 Criti|                 he should be set right. Wishing, then, to speak truly in
985 Criti|                honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict
986 Criti|              begat children by a mortal woman, and settled them in a part
987 Criti|              maiden had already reached womanhood, when her father and mother
988 Criti|          growing all manner of trees of wonderful height and beauty, owing
989 Criti|                more marvellous than the wonders of the East narrated by
990 Criti|                  brought forth fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance.
991 Criti|               as showing how the chance word of some poet or philosopher
992 Criti|            altar too, which in size and workmanship corresponded to this magnificence,
993 Criti|            wholly emancipated. Although worthless in respect of any result
994 Criti|    unintentionally I have said anything wrong, I pray that he will impose
995 Criti|              judgment, at daybreak they wrote down their sentences on
996 Criti|                 was of ivory, curiously wrought everywhere with gold and
997 Criti|               was accounted infamous by Xenophon, and that the mere acquaintance
998 Criti|               all the pursuits which we yesterday described as those of our
999 Criti|             country was fair as now and yielded far more abundant produce.