Dialogue

 1 Intro|                 philosopher, and not of Socrates. And this is required by
 2 Intro|              was expressly renounced by Socrates in the Phaedo. Nor does
 3 Intro|              modern science.~Section 1.~Socrates begins the Timaeus with
 4 Intro|                that you would repeat to Socrates.’ ‘I will, if Timaeus approves.’ ‘
 5 Intro|                I approve.’ Listen then, Socrates, to a tale of Solon’s, who,
 6 Intro|              ocean.’~Such was the tale, Socrates, which Critias heard from
 7 Intro|                mind; and I am prepared, Socrates, to rehearse to you the
 8 Intro|           citizenship. ‘I see,’ replied Socrates, ‘that I shall be well entertained;
 9 Intro|              may attain but no further.~SOCRATES: Excellent, Timaeus, I like
10 Intro|               contemporary of Plato and Socrates was incapable of resisting
11 Intro|                own self-consciousness.’ Socrates had already spoken of God
12 Intro|                In the generation before Socrates, Anaxagoras had brought
13 Intro|                 who became disciples of Socrates. We have hardly any other
14 Intro|                with the final causes of Socrates himself. There is no intelligible
15 Intro|       philosophy and in the teaching of Socrates and of the Megarians respectively;
16 Intro| self-contradiction. He had learned from Socrates that vice is ignorance,
17 Timae|                PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.~
18 Timae|          Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.~SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where,
19 Timae|                  He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not willingly
20 Timae|             absent from this gathering.~SOCRATES: Then, if he is not coming,
21 Timae|                return your hospitality.~SOCRATES: Do you remember what were
22 Timae|           firmly fixed in our memories?~SOCRATES: To be sure I will: the
23 Timae|             most perfect.~TIMAEUS: Yes, Socrates; and what you said of it
24 Timae|              was very much to our mind.~SOCRATES: Did we not begin by separating
25 Timae|                the State?~TIMAEUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And when we had given to
26 Timae|               battle.~TIMAEUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES: We said, if I am not mistaken,
27 Timae|            enemies.~TIMAEUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And what did we say of
28 Timae|               them?~TIMAEUS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And being thus trained
29 Timae|            TIMAEUS: That was also said.~SOCRATES: Neither did we forget the
30 Timae|                  again, was as you say.~SOCRATES: And what about the procreation
31 Timae|                to remember, as you say.~SOCRATES: And do you also remember
32 Timae|               lot?~TIMAEUS: I remember.~SOCRATES: And you remember how we
33 Timae|                 came up?~TIMAEUS: True.~SOCRATES: Then have I now given you
34 Timae|              omitted?~TIMAEUS: Nothing, Socrates; it was just as you have
35 Timae|              was just as you have said.~SOCRATES: I should like, before proceeding
36 Timae|                HERMOCRATES: And we too, Socrates, as Timaeus says, will not
37 Timae|                that you would repeat to Socrates, so that he may help us
38 Timae|          approve.~CRITIAS: Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though
39 Timae|               this her day of festival.~SOCRATES: Very good. And what is
40 Timae|                I have told you briefly, Socrates, what the aged Critias heard
41 Timae|              something to say. And now, Socrates, to make an end of my preface,
42 Timae|                 upon us. Consider then, Socrates, if this narrative is suited
43 Timae|                 for some other instead.~SOCRATES: And what other, Critias,
44 Timae|              proceed to explain to you, Socrates, the order in which we have
45 Timae|          Athenians and fellow-citizens.~SOCRATES: I see that I shall receive
46 Timae|                 Gods.~TIMAEUS: All men, Socrates, who have any degree of
47 Timae|               truth to belief. If then, Socrates, amid the many opinions
48 Timae|                 and enquire no further.~SOCRATES: Excellent, Timaeus; and