Dialogue

 1 Intro|           Socrates, to a tale of Solon’s, who, being the friend
 2 Intro|        recitation. Some poems of Solon were recited by the boys.
 3 Intro|      compliment to Critias, that Solon was not only the wisest
 4 Intro|      hearing this, and said: Had Solon only had the leisure which
 5 Intro|       the whole story, and where Solon heard the story.’ He replied—
 6 Intro|     related to them. Hither came Solon, and was received with honour;
 7 Intro|      aged priest said to him: ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
 8 Intro|    priest said to him: ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are ever young,
 9 Intro|          out of your own annals, Solon, are a mere children’s story.
10 Intro|       under the face of heaven.’ Solon marvelled, and desired to
11 Intro|         which Critias heard from Solon; and I noticed when listening
12 Intro|   identified with the reality of Solon, and our antediluvian ancestors
13 Intro|      record spoke. As the law of Solon prescribes, we will bring
14 Intro|          to have been brought by Solon from Egypt. That is another
15 Intro|         It is only a legend that Solon went to Egypt, and if he
16 Intro|        in turn had heard it from Solon himself? Is not the famous
17 Intro|       transferred to the poem of Solon? ‘It is not improbable,’
18 Intro|            says Mr. Grote, ‘that Solon did leave an unfinished
19 Intro|     critic? How came the poem of Solon to disappear in antiquity?
20 Intro|        that the tale was told to Solon by an Egyptian priest, nor
21 Intro|          nor can we believe that Solon wrote a poem upon the theme
22 Intro|        was brought from Egypt by Solon and made the subject of
23 Intro|         the conversation between Solon and the Egyptian priest,
24 Intro|       found the famous words, ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
25 Intro|          famous words, ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are ever young,
26 Timae|          having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the
27 Timae|    declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend,
28 Timae|          of us sang the poems of Solon, which at that time had
29 Timae|        said that in his judgment Solon was not only the wisest
30 Timae|      smiling: Yes, Amynander, if Solon had only, like other poets,
31 Timae|     story, and how and from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition.~
32 Timae|          them. To this city came Solon, and was received there
33 Timae|          very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
34 Timae|        great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never
35 Timae|        not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what
36 Timae|        just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than
37 Timae|      word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge
38 Timae|        under the face of heaven. Solon marvelled at his words,
39 Timae|      welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for
40 Timae|    within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth,
41 Timae|          aged Critias heard from Solon and related to us. And when
42 Timae| particular with the narrative of Solon; but I did not like to speak
43 Timae|      accordance with the tale of Solon, and equally with his law,