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Plato, Timaeus, Page 20e: Solon, Dropides and old Critias
Critias gives the chain by which the story reached him: Solon was a close friend of his great-grandfather Dropides, and his grandfather Critias used to repeat what he had been told.
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ΣόλωνSólōnSolonποτʼpotʼonceἔφηéphēsaid.ἦνênwasμὲνmèn—οὖνoûnnowοἰκεῖοςoikeîosa relativeκαὶkaìandσφόδραsphódraveryφίλοςphílosdear friendἡμῖνhēmînourΔρωπίδουDrōpídouof Dropidesτοῦtoû—προπάππουpropáppougreat-grandfatherRead on word by word in the reader ›
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