Plato, Timaeus, Page 21a: The deed that was really done

Critias says it is fitting to thank Socrates and honour the goddess at her festival. Socrates asks what deed he means, and Critias begins with the source of the story, an old man he heard it from.

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21a The deed that was really done. Critias: Now that we have recalled it, it would be fitting for us both…

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