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Against the Heathen, Book 1

Arnobius, 1886. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6.

At 1.5 Arnobius answers the charge that Christians caused the world's wars by pointing to older ones, including that "ten thousand years ago a vast number of men burst forth from the island which is called the Atlantis of Neptune, as Plato tells us".

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Primary text: Arnobius recalls the host that burst from "the Atlantis of Neptune" ten thousand years before, citing Plato (1.5).

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Arnobius (1886). Against the Heathen, Book 1. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/06311.htm
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