Sophist – Plato
STRANGER: While the other goes to land and not among them; or you may say that man is a water of another sort—rivers of wealth and broad tame animal but is not hunted—you shall decide meadow-lands of generous youth; and he also is which of these alternatives you prefer.
intending to take the animals which are in them.
THEAETETUS: I should say, Stranger, that man THEAETETUS: What do you mean?
is a tame animal, and I admit that he is hunted.
STRANGER: Of hunting on land there are two STRANGER: Then let us divide the hunting of principal divisions.
tame animals into two parts.
THEAETETUS: What are they?
THEAETETUS: How shall we make the division?
STRANGER: One is the hunting of tame, and the STRANGER: Let us define piracy, man-stealing, other of wild animals.
tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence.
THEAETETUS: But are tame animals ever hunted?
THEAETETUS: Very good.
STRANGER: Yes, if you include man under tame STRANGER: But the art of the lawyer, of the popu-animals. But if you like you may say that there lar orator, and the art of conversation may be are no tame animals, or that, if there are, man is called in one word the art of persuasion.