Plato, Timaeus, Page 22a: Solon questions the priests

At Saïs the Egyptian priests honour Solon. Critias goes on telling what his grandfather heard: Solon tried to draw them out about the oldest Greek stories.

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22a Solon questions the priests. Critias: And once, when he was asking the priests who were most experienced in…

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