Plato, Timaeus, Page 20d: Critias is asked to tell his story

Hermocrates asks Critias to repeat the account he proposed, so that Socrates can judge whether it fits the assignment. Critias begins by promising a strange but entirely true story.

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20d Critias is asked to tell his story. Hermocrates: This man, then, brought us an account from old hearsay. Tell it now…

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