Dialogue

 1 Intro|         on our way home, Critias told us of an ancient tradition,
 2 Intro|   Dropidas my great-grandfather, told it to my grandfather Critias,
 3 Intro|      grandfather Critias, and he told me. The narrative related
 4 Intro|         goddess. Critias when he told this tale of the olden time,
 5 Intro|        information from them, he told them the tales of Phoroneus
 6 Intro|      nature of the universe, and told them of their future birth
 7 Intro|          as ancient superstition told, were to be found intimations
 8 Intro|    Similar gossiping stories are told about the sources of the
 9 Intro|         could Plato himself have told) where the figure or myth
10 Intro|   Nothing. Yet we are frequently told that the one class of them
11 Intro|        suppose that the tale was told to Solon by an Egyptian
12 Timae|          the matter over, and he told us an ancient tradition,
13 Timae|    passages of his poems; and he told the story to Critias, my
14 Timae| subsidence of the island.~I have told you briefly, Socrates, what
15 Timae|    therefore, as Hermocrates has told you, on my way home yesterday
16 Timae|        particulars, as they were told to me. The city and citizens,