Dialogue

 1 Intro|    Listen then, Socrates, to a tale of Solon’s, who, being the
 2 Intro|      Critias when he told this tale of the olden time, was ninety
 3 Intro|     symbolized in the Hellenic tale of young Phaethon who drove
 4 Intro|  Atlantic ocean.’~Such was the tale, Socrates, which Critias
 5 Intro|       add a fair ending to our tale. As I said at first, all
 6 Intro|       Egypt and Asia? Like the tale of Troy, or the legend of
 7 Intro| history of the human mind. The tale of Atlantis is the fabric
 8 Intro|      which he has given to the tale is a further reason for
 9 Intro|       of them? And how was the tale transferred to the poem
10 Intro|        moment suppose that the tale was told to Solon by an
11 Timae|    Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is
12 Timae|    life, and had completed the tale which he brought with him
13 Timae|     any poet.~And what was the tale about, Critias? said Amynander.~
14 Timae|    your city and citizens, the tale which I have just been repeating
15 Timae|        difficulty is to find a tale suitable to our purpose,
16 Timae|  purpose, and that with such a tale we should be fairly well
17 Timae|       at once communicated the tale to my companions as I remembered
18 Timae|    ready to tell you the whole tale. I will give you not only
19 Timae|    therefore you must tell the tale, and good luck to you; and
20 Timae|         in accordance with the tale of Solon, and equally with
21 Timae|     and we ought to accept the tale which is probable and enquire
22 Timae|        to the beginning of our tale.~As I said at first, when