Dialogue

 1 Intro|     the olden time, was ninety years old, I being not more than
 2 Intro|      our cities. Nine thousand years have elapsed since she founded
 3 Intro|       into months and days and years, and also having greater
 4 Intro|       a period of six thousand years; he was able to speculate
 5 Intro|        truth, for ten thousand years’ (Laws); he was aware that
 6 Intro|      of the universe. In a few years the human mind was peopled
 7 Intro|    recurrence of days, months, years, the military divisions
 8 Intro|     more obtuse with advancing years; and when they finally wear
 9 Intro| question much disputed of late years. Even if all phenomena are
10 Intro|      he confesses in his later years that they are full of obscurity
11 Intro|      show that the legend, 800 years after the time of Plato,
12 Timae|      as he said, nearly ninety years of age, and I was about
13 Timae|      tried to compute how many years ago the events of which
14 Timae|   founded your city a thousand years before ours (Observe that
15 Timae|      gives the same date (9000 years ago) for the foundation
16 Timae|    sacred registers to be 8000 years old. As touching your citizens
17 Timae| touching your citizens of 9000 years ago, I will briefly inform
18 Timae|      and nights and months and years before the heaven was created,
19 Timae|     and the revolutions of the years, have created number, and