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Quotation from Critias by Plato

“there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called”

Plato (spoken by Critias)

Critias, Stephanus 111b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Critias compares the stripped, eroded land of Attica after nine thousand years of floods to an emaciated body.

Citation: "there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 111b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q6)

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