Dialogue

 1 Intro|         property and of women and children. But he makes no mention
 2 Intro|          mean to say that you are children; there is no opinion or
 3 Intro|         annals, Solon, are a mere children’s story. For in the first
 4 Intro|           you dwelt as became the children of the gods, excelling all
 5 Intro|        the ancients, who were the children of the gods, as they said;
 6 Intro|       Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven; that
 7 Intro|          Here, whose brothers and children are known to everybody.~
 8 Intro|           his own nature. And his children, receiving from him the
 9 Intro|           lives over again in his children, and can never have too
10 Intro|           those that are found in children, but they become more obtuse
11 Intro| expression—‘You Hellenes are ever children and there is no knowledge
12 Intro|          we doubt the word of the children of the Gods? Although they
13 Timae|          about the procreation of children? Or rather was not the proposal
14 Timae|      forgotten? for all wives and children were to be in common, to
15 Timae|           and those of a younger, children and grandchildren.~TIMAEUS:
16 Timae|     remember how we said that the children of the good parents were
17 Timae|           to be educated, and the children of the bad secretly dispersed
18 Timae|   Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old
19 Timae|         begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what
20 Timae|          better than the tales of children. In the first place you
21 Timae|         all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods.~
22 Timae|          we doubt the word of the children of the gods? Although they
23 Timae|       Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven, and
24 Timae|           and others who were the children of these.~Now, when all
25 Timae|       them in these words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are my works,
26 Timae|        accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient
27 Timae|           desirous of procreating children, and when remaining unfruitful