Plato, Statesman, section 269c

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[269c] and so I must tell it now; for that will help us to make clear the nature of the king.

Younger Socrates
Very good; just tell your tale and omit nothing.

Stranger
Listen then. During a certain period God himself goes with the universe as guide in its revolving course, but at another epoch, when the cycles have at length reached the measure of his allotted time, he lets it go,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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