 | Plato - 1871 - 676 pages
...rain all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. And that...and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. I have told you shortly, Socrates, the tradition which the aged Critias heard from Solon. And when... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 pages
...rain all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. And that...and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. I have told you shortly, Socrates, the tradition which the aged Critias heard from Solon. And when... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 pages
...sayPlato, "why the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is such a quan tity of shallow mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island." A noted novelist was asked why he killed his principal hero so early in the story, and replied that... | |
 | William J. Cassidy - 1887 - 392 pages
...beneath the sea. And that is the reason why the sea in those parts is impassable and unpenetrable, because there is such a quantity of shallow mud in...this was caused by the subsidence of the island." * The sudden disappearance of Atlantis in a single day and night was undoubtedly the result of the... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 794 pages
...For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way ; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. I have told you briefly, Socrates, what the aged Critias heard from Solon and related to us. And when... | |
 | Brigham Henry Roberts - 1909 - 496 pages
...rain all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. And that...this was caused by the subsidence of the island." On the acceptance of Plato's story of Atlantis, both by ancient and modern writers, P. De Roo, in his... | |
 | George Edward Weare - 1897 - 392 pages
...rain all your warlike men in a body sank unto the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. And that...this was caused by the subsidence of the island.' . . . But in addition to the gods whom you have mentioned, I would specially invoke Mnemosyne ; for... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1898 - 336 pages
...sea ; and this is ' why the sea in that region grew so impassable and impenetrable, because there is a quantity of shallow mud in the way, and this was caused by the sinking of a single vast island. "This is the tale," said Solon, "which the old Egyptian priest told... | |
 | Plato - 1899 - 634 pages
...sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is such a quantity of shallow Mind in the way ; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. I have told you shortly, Socrates, the tradition which the aged Chitian heard from Solon. And when... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. And this is the reason why the sea in those parts is impassable...this was caused by the subsidence of the island." THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL BENEFICENT LOVE. FROM PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM. Introductory Note : — We have... | |
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Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. 
