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245 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter G
   The son of Critias, son of Dropides, was also the brother of Callaeschrus, and the father of Charmides and of Plato's mother, Perictione; he was, consequently, uncle to Critias (the tyrant) on the father's side, and to Plato on the mother's side. (27.69)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon section 1
   Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus [Critias] v B.C. Ed. H. Diels, Vorsokr. (18.76)

3. Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander chapter 14, section 11
   Critias, another prominent follower, played a leading role in the murder and plunder perpetrated by the Thirty Tyrants in 404-403 B.C. In blaming Socrates for the crimes of Critias, Socrates's detractors chose to overlook his defiance of the Thirty Tyrants when they had tried to involve him in their violent schemes and his utter rejection of the immorality Critias had displayed. (17.64)

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3 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Clamour
   And Mr. Arrowsmith explains clamour to mean curb, restrain, considering it as equivalent to chaumbre or chammer (Fr. chommer), and cites the following passages from Udall's translation of the Apophthegms of Erasmus: 'For Critias menaced and threatened him, that unless he chaumbred his tongue in season etc. and: from no sort of men in the world did he refrain or chaumbre the taunting of his tongue. (5.16)

2. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   Which may appeare by the relation of Plato in his two worthy dialogues of Timaeus and Critias under the discourse of that mighty large yland called by him Atlantis, lying in the Ocean sea without the Streight of Hercules, now called the Streight of Gibraltar, being (as he there reporteth) bigger then Africa & Asia: And by that of Aristotle in his booke De admirandis auditionibus of the long navigation of certaine Carthaginians, who sayling forth of the aforesaid Streight of Gibraltar into the maine Ocean for the space of many dayes, in the ende found a mighty and fruitfull yland, which they would have inhabited, but were forbidden by their Senate and chiefe governours. (2.43)

3. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   Plato in Timaeo, and in the Dialogue called Critias, discourseth of an incomparable great Iland then called Atlantis, being greater then all Affrike and Asia, which lay Westward from the Straights of Gibraltar, navigable round about: affirming also that the Princes of Atlantis did aswell enjoy the governance of all Affrike, and the most part of Europe, as of Atlantis it selfe. (1.83)

1 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Augustus J. C. Hare, Volume 2: Walks in London chapter 4, page 172
   The emulators of Phidias were Alcamenes, Critias, Nestocles, and Hegias; twenty years after, Agelades, Gallon, Polycletus, Phragmon, Gorgias, Lacon, Myron, Scopas, Pythagoras, and Perelius. (4.42)