Plato, Timaeus, Page 22d: The truth behind Phaethon

The priest gives the plain account behind the myth, a shift of the heavenly bodies, and explains who survives a fire or a flood and why the Nile saves Egypt.

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Critias

ἀληθέςalēthéstruthἐστιestiisτῶνtônof the thingsπερὶperìaroundγῆνgênthe earthκατʼkatʼacrossοὐρανὸνouranònthe skyἰόντωνióntōnmovingπαράλλαξιςparállaxisdeviationκαὶkaìandδιὰdiàafterμακρῶνmakrônlongχρόνωνchrónōnperiodsγιγνομένηgignoménēhappening

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22d The truth behind Phaethon. Critias: But the truth is a deviation of the bodies that move around the…

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