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Timeo: -Con cuánto placer, Sócrates, cual descansando de largo camino, doy por terminada ahora, así, contento, la peregrinación del razonamiento. Al dios, nacido precisamente ahora por la palabra, aunque, tal vez desde bien antes, por la obra, ruego que nos dé conservar de lo dicho lo mesuradamente dicho; mas, si, involuntariamente, acerca de ello algo fuera de tono dijimos, nos imponga el debido y justo castigo. Mas justo castigo es entonar al desentonado. Para que, pues, en lo restante hablemos correctamente acerca de la génesis de los dioses, pidámosle nos dé esa droga la más perfecta y mejor de las drogas: la ciencia. Hecha nuestra plegaria, entreguemos a Critias, según lo convenido, la continuación del razonamiento.
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The Athenian who turned Socratic conversation into a written philosophy and founded the Academy.
Plato was born around 428 BCE into a wealthy and politically prominent Athenian family; through his mother Perictione the family traced kinship to the lawgiver Solon, and his relatives Critias and Charmides were among the oligarchs of the Thirty. A late tradition says his given name was Aristocles and that 'Plato' — from the word for 'broad' — was a nickname. He grew up during the long agony of the Peloponnesian War and came of age amid the violence and disillusion that followed Athens' defeat.
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