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Plato, Critias, Page 113e: Two springs and five pairs of twins

The rings stand at equal distances, so no one could cross to the hill, since there were as yet no ships. Poseidon brings up a hot and a cold spring, supplies food from the earth, and fathers five pairs of twin sons.

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