Critias
   Part
 1 Intro|           Solon and introduced the Egyptian priests to give verisimilitude
 2 Intro|          were given to Solon in an Egyptian form, and he enquired their
 3 Intro|       Greek names occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that
 4 Intro|         inclined to believe in the Egyptian poem of Solon of which there
 5 Intro|           like Martin, discuss the Egyptian origin of the legend, or
 6 Intro|          upon the authority of the Egyptian priests; and the Egyptian
 7 Intro|          Egyptian priests; and the Egyptian priests took a pleasure
 8 Intro|      deceiver or magician than the Egyptian priests, that is to say,
 9 Intro|            a sort of Babylonian or Egyptian city, to which he opposes
10 Text |         Concerning the country the Egyptian priests said what is not


Euthydemus
   Part
11 Text |         not serious, but, like the Egyptian wizard, Proteus, they take


Gorgias
   Part
12 Intro|          an Oriental, or rather an Egyptian element in them, and they


Laws
   Book
13 2    |          same, as you describe the Egyptian to be, or having the same


Parmenides
   Part
14 Intro|        Socrates, can easily invent Egyptian tales or anything else,’


Phaedrus
   Part
15 Intro|           writing. There is an old Egyptian tale of Theuth, the inventor
16 Intro|       might have known or invented Egyptian traditions before he went
17 Text |            heard.~SOCRATES: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there
18 Text |            which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself


Philebus
   Part
19 Text |          or divine man, who in the Egyptian legend is said to have been


Timaeus
   Part
20 Intro|        There is at the head of the Egyptian Delta, where the river Nile
21 Intro|             by conversing with the Egyptian priests, how ignorant he
22 Intro|      Athenian citizens of whom the Egyptian record spoke. As the law
23 Intro|            led by the fixedness of Egyptian customs and the general
24 Intro|         legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian source? It may be replied
25 Intro|        been discovered hitherto in Egyptian monuments of a connexion
26 Intro|            he could easily ‘invent Egyptian or any other tales’ (Phaedrus).
27 Intro|            not have conversed with Egyptian priests or have read records
28 Intro|  attributed to the learning of the Egyptian priest, and not rather to
29 Intro|       genius of Plato? Or when the Egyptian says—‘Hereafter at our leisure
30 Intro|            did leave an unfinished Egyptian poem’ (Plato). But are probabilities
31 Intro|            was told to Solon by an Egyptian priest, nor can we believe
32 Intro| conversation between Solon and the Egyptian priest, in which the youthfulness
33 Text |      tradition.~He replied:—In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which
34 Text |    foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted
35 Text |          Athenians whom the sacred Egyptian record has recovered from