Sophist – Plato
STRANGER: Then he must be supposed to have THEAETETUS: Yes.
some art.
STRANGER: And you remember that we subdi-THEAETETUS: What art?
vided the swimming and left the land animals, saying that there were many kinds of them?
STRANGER: By heaven, they are cousins! it never occurred to us.
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
THEAETETUS: Who are cousins?
STRANGER: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting from the art of acquiring, take STRANGER: The angler and the Sophist.
the same road?
THEAETETUS: In what way are they related?
THEAETETUS: So it would appear.
STRANGER: They both appear to me to be hunters.
STRANGER: Their paths diverge when they reach the art of animal hunting; the one going to the THEAETETUS: How the Sophist? Of the other sea-shore, and to the rivers and to the lakes, and we have spoken.
angling for the animals which are in them.
STRANGER: You remember our division of hunting, into THEAETETUS: Very true.
hunting after swimming animals and land animals?