Platonism began the West’s pursuit of abstract truth from the times of ancient Greece.

从古希腊时代起，柏拉图主义便开始了西方式的对抽象真理的追求。

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There was a place in ancient Greece called Magnesia and this place was a source of several useful mineral products back in ancient times.

在古希腊有个叫Magnesia的地方，这里早在远古时期就盛产许多矿石。

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By means of this commercial intercourse Italy necessarily acquired those branches of knowledge and those arts and manufactures which Greece had preserved from the civilisation of ancient times.

意大利通过这些商业贸易往来必然吸收了不同支脉的文化、艺术以及因古代希腊文明所保留的生产工艺。

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