Sophist – Plato
THEAETETUS: Very true.
suit, and who reappears again for the fourth time.
STRANGER: Suppose we try and give to each of STRANGER: Yes, and with a fresh pedigree, for these two classes a name.
he is the money-making species of the Eristic, disputatious, controversial, pugnacious, combat-THEAETETUS: Let us do so.
ive, acquisitive family, as the argument has already proven.
STRANGER: I should say that the habit which leads a man to neglect his own affairs for the pleasure of THEAETETUS: Certainly.
conversation, of which the style is far from being agreeable to the majority of his hearers, may be STRANGER: How true was the observation that fairly termed loquacity: such is my opinion.
he was a many-sided animal, and not to be caught with one hand, as they say!
THEAETETUS: That is the common name for it.
THEAETETUS: Then you must catch him with two.
STRANGER: But now who the other is, who makes money out of private disputation, it is your STRANGER: Yes, we must, if we can. And there-turn to say.
fore let us try another track in our pursuit of him: You are aware that there are certain me-THEAETETUS: There is only one true answer: he nial occupations which have names among seris the wonderful Sophist, of whom we are in pur-vants?