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the valleys were laden with dead. These, being upgathered, were cast upon the decks of their vessels, and, drifted by a miraculous tide, came at sunset to their own country, where was then great wonder and grief for what had befallen them.
Zeus, perceiving that the people of Atlantis had dealt guiltily by the Athenians, striving to make slaves of those himself had pronounced free, caused that an earthquake should rend their island, and utterly overwhelm it in the sea.
