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Plato, Timaeus, Page 23e: Eight thousand years in the temple writings
The priest says the goddess founded Athens a thousand years before Saïs, and that Egypt's sacred writings count 8,000 years; he promises the laws of the Athenians of 9,000 years ago.
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