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Plato, Timaeus, Page 24e: The Atlantic sea and the Pillars of Heracles
The priest names the one deed that surpasses all the rest: Athens stopped a great power that came against Europe and Asia from the Atlantic sea. He explains that the sea was then passable, because of an island lying in front of the mouth that the Greeks call the Pillars of Heracles.
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