Atlantis, that ancient land of Meropis mentioned by the historian Theopompus; Plato's Atlantis; the continent whose very existence has been denied by such philosophers and scientists as Origen, Porphyry, Iamblichus, d'Anville, Malte-Brun, and Humboldt, who entered its disappearance in the ledger of myths and folk tales; the country whose reality has nevertheless been accepted by such other thinkers as Posidonius, Pliny, Ammianus Marcellinus, Tertullian, Engel, Scherer, Tournefort, Buffon, and d'Avezac; I had this land right under my eyes, furnishing its own unimpeachable evidence of the catastrophe that had overtaken it!
Platón[43] Atlantisa! Az elsüllyedt földrész, amelynek Origenes, Porphyros, Iamblicos, D'Anville, Malte-Brun és Humboldt tagadta a létezését, s az eltűnt földrészt a legendák és mesék körébe utalta de Posidonius, Plinius, Ammienus, Marcellinus, Tertullianus, Engel, Scherer, Tournefort, Buffon és D'Avezac hitt a létezésében![44] S most itt terült el szemem előtt, végpusztulása kétségtelen jeleivel!