Dialogue

 1 Intro|        There is at the head of the Egyptian Delta, where the river Nile
 2 Intro|             by conversing with the Egyptian priests, how ignorant he
 3 Intro|      Athenian citizens of whom the Egyptian record spoke. As the law
 4 Intro|            led by the fixedness of Egyptian customs and the general
 5 Intro|         legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian source? It may be replied
 6 Intro|        been discovered hitherto in Egyptian monuments of a connexion
 7 Intro|            he could easily ‘invent Egyptian or any other tales’ (Phaedrus).
 8 Intro|            not have conversed with Egyptian priests or have read records
 9 Intro|  attributed to the learning of the Egyptian priest, and not rather to
10 Intro|       genius of Plato? Or when the Egyptian says—‘Hereafter at our leisure
11 Intro|            did leave an unfinished Egyptian poem’ (Plato). But are probabilities
12 Intro|            was told to Solon by an Egyptian priest, nor can we believe
13 Intro| conversation between Solon and the Egyptian priest, in which the youthfulness
14 Timae|      tradition.~He replied:—In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which
15 Timae|    foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted
16 Timae|          Athenians whom the sacred Egyptian record has recovered from