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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Critias, fr. 50 D.-K. (in Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 480)}}

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οἶδα γὰρ δὴ καὶ Κριτίαν τὸν σοφιστὴν οὐκ ἐκ πατέρων, ἀλλὰ Ὁμήρου δὴ μόνου σὺν τῶι πατρὶ ἐπιμνησθέντα, ἐπειδὴ θαῦμα δηλώσειν ἔμελλε πατέρα Ὁμήρωι ποταμὸν εἶναι.
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For I know that also the sophist Critias did not (start) by (mentioning) the fathers, but mentioned only Homer together with his father, because he was reporting something astonishing: that Homer’s father was a river.
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