Platon autem, patriam Athenas, praeceptorem Socratem sortitus, et locum et hominem doctrinae fertilissimum, ingenii quoque divina instructus abundantia, cum omnium iam mortalium sapientissimus haberetur, eo quidem usque ut si ipse Iuppiter caelo descendisset, nec elegantiore nec beatiore facundia usurus videretur, Aegyptum peragravit, dum a sacerdotibus eius gentis geometriae multiplices numeros <et> caelestium observationum rationem percipit.
Plato was allotted Athens as his country and Socrates as his teacher, both the place and the man most fertile in learning. He was also furnished with a divine plenitude of intellect, being reputed the wisest of all mortals to date, so much so that if Jupiter himself came down from heaven he would not, so it was thought, speak with an eloquence more choice and copious. He travelled through Egypt, where he acquired the multifarious calculations of geometry and the system of celestial observations from the priests of that nation.
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