Opening Critias — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
How glad I am, Socrates, to have come to the end of my protracted account. I feel relieved now, as if I were resting after a long journey. And I pray now to the god who has just been created in words, although created long ago in fact, to grant us the preservation of anything reasonable that we have said and to impose justice, as appropriate, if we have unwittingly gone out of tune on these subjects. And right justice means returning to harmony the person who has gone out of tune. Now, so that the remainder of our discourse about the creation of gods may be spoken aright, we pray that we may be given the most perfect and excellent medicine of all medicines, which is knowledge, and with this prayer I entrust the next discourse to Critias, as we agreed. Indeed, Timaeus, although I accept the task, I request some indulgence just as you did at the very outset, since I am about to speak on …
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