Timaeus
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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The opening
TIMAEUS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.
SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day?
TIMAEUS: He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not willingly have been absent from this gathering.
SOCRATES: Then, if he is not coming, you and the two others must supply his place.
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About this edition
- The words
- Benjamin Jowett's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license, in 9 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places